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That's why GNU Emacs is written in C and Cobol. More seriously, I have seen a lot of badly written Lisp/Scheme, as much as in any other language. Lisp DOES sca
by vincent-manis 6y ago
That's why GNU Emacs is written in C and Cobol.
More seriously, I have seen a lot of badly written Lisp/Scheme, as much as in any other language. Lisp DOES scale quite well, if the code is well-designed.
- vincent-manis 6y agoBy the way, I'm well aware that there are pieces of GNU Emacs that are mazes of twisty passages, understood by very few people. That's to be expected of a decades-old program that has perhaps not experienced enough refactoring.
- lmm 6y agoEvery language scales well if the code is well-designed, almost by definition. The more salient question is how well large codebases written by mediocre programmers can be maintained by other mediocre programmers, because that's what any long-lived codebase will have to deal with.