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Even less recently, we have had a very similar sounding Greenspun’s Tenth Rule.

• oblio 6y ago
  The Common Lisp one? Another arrogant and these days probably outdated quote that's sometimes trotted out on the internet.
  • rbanffy 6y ago
    I have seen more than one generation say this and then, after a while, attain enlightenment. Feel free to be the next one.
    • oblio 6y ago
      Programming languages are tools. Tools need to be used to build wonderful works of art or industry to be useful or have any realistic shot at being considered great tools. The fact that the overwhelming majority of great applications, services, any kind of software we create is not written in Lisp should at some point in the first century after the creation of Lisp, lead Lisp afficionados to some kind of enlightenment, one would hope. Unlikely, since it's already been 60 years, so they only have 40 years left.
  • Koshkin 6y ago
    > outdated No, CL's popularity hasn't changed over the past 30 years.
    • oblio 6y ago
      Yes, you're completely right. The same people using in 1990 are using it today.