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> The philosophy of Lisp encourages writing your own libraries because it's so easy to do That statement could be said of any language the programmer is comfor
by throw_m239339 5y ago
> The philosophy of Lisp encourages writing your own libraries because it's so easy to do
That statement could be said of any language the programmer is comfortable with. It's no more a LISP philosophy than a C++ one. The difference is that way more people are working with C++ (or Java) thus opensourcing their libraries for others to be used.
- jhgb 5y agoI think the argument there was that lots of things were so much easier to do in Lisp that people wrote their own implementation, then they thought "what's the big deal about it?", and then they didn't share their library because they didn't think they've accomplished something meaningful to share. So you end up with people doing things in C++ and Java and publishing it and getting their code reused because 1) the authors of the code were more likely to think of publishing their code as a useful thing, and 2) due to some things being harder in those languages, other people were more likely to shop for libraries rather than to think "I can do this myself".