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> [...] in the general dev community, I don't think its clear that everyone is > bought into abstracting syntax too much. [...] This seems like you're saying
by jfm3 16y ago
> [...] in the general dev community, I don't think its clear that everyone is
> bought into abstracting syntax too much. [...]
This seems like you're saying "python is better because it does the things people like and doesn't do the things they don't like". But the same argument could be used to claim Microsoft Windows is a great operating system, and that Justin Bieber is a great musician.
> Lisp [...] has never caught on in a big way [...]
This is factually incorrect. Scaled for the size of the industry, it was at one time as popular as Java was a few years ago. What happened then is well documented elsewhere. Search for "ai winter" and "worse is better" to start.
- kenjackson 16y agoFirst, I'm not making any claims that Python is better/worse. I'm simply stating that I think many devs (but certainly not all -- and probably even fewer exceptional devs), did not buy into a large degree of syntax abstraction. I personally like some it, but there certainly are limits. This is factually incorrect. Scaled for the size of the industry, Sure, if you scale for the size of the industry which found it useful. But that seems nearly tautological.
- jfm3 16y agoOkay, then I agree. Lispers use macros sparingly. But not having them at all pinches me terribly and I wish I could explain that better. Decorators don't help much with that pinching :) I mean the size of the industry that programmed computers at all, not the size of the industry that programmed in Lisp.