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I often hear engineers rave about lisp. Is that really such a superior language?
by rjyoungling 6y ago
I often hear engineers rave about lisp. Is that really such a superior language?
- orwin 6y agoNo, its not, but it is a fun language. I'd take a lisp job over anything if i found one. Not because it is the best language (it is not the best at anything, except maybe prototyping), but because it is fun, and interesting to work with it.
- rjyoungling 6y agoSounds fun yeah.. Really should start to learn to program. Got a background in pure math but for some illogical reason I feel kind of intimidated by programming.
- ByteJockey 6y agoSuperior at what? Meta-programming? Yes. Object-oriented programming? Meh. CLOS is nice, but not vastly superior to anything else. Something else? Depends on what that something is.
- rjyoungling 6y agoIt's interesting.. all these different languages. Wonder if at some point in the future, you'd just have 1 language. (not an engineer so idk if that's possible/practical)