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I am not doubting that Lisp is a language with which can be used to write succesful commercial applications. I am questioning the claim that it is vastly more p
by andi999 6y ago
I am not doubting that Lisp is a language with which can be used to write succesful commercial applications. I am questioning the claim that it is vastly more productive for commercial applications.
Of course it is not really possible to say how somebody else in a different language would have needed, so maybe a compromise would be to see some 'magical'lisp code examples.
- srean 6y agoITA software would definitely be worth looking at, but you would need to get hired by the right team. More details here http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html you can also glean more information by searching over older discussions about ITA on HN.
- andi999 6y agoThis is really interesting. I am amazed by the circumvention of the GC for large data; this thought would have never occured to me.