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There have been several idiotic comments by lisp proponents in this thread and this is one of the stupidest. You appear to be criticizing all programmers that u
by da39a3ee 5y ago
There have been several idiotic comments by lisp proponents in this thread and this is one of the stupidest. You appear to be criticizing all programmers that use libraries. You, and your peers, are coming off as arrogant and ignorant hobbyists, but the people you're talking to are largely professional programmers solving real world problems. Of course, one solves the problems that remain to be solved, and reuse good and proven solutions where these exist.
- mbrodersen 5y agoYou are absolutely right. The arrogance of Lisp developers is just breathtaking. Especially because the very same developers have no evidence to support their claims. The world runs on C/C++/JavaScript. Not Lisp.
- da39a3ee 5y agoYes, honestly, I love lisp, although my only claim to being a lisp programmer is that I'm the author of some emacs packages. But I have to admit that yes I've noticed a definite tendency for people in the emacs lisp community to be abrasive and difficult and not very friendly in open source work. I think perhaps more of them are in university-related jobs in europe and hence haven't experienced the wonderful fake friendliness of california tech companies.
- mbrodersen 5y agoI don’t think Lisp is popular in European academia? Europe is very much hard core type theory. Just look at Coq, Idris, Haskell etc.
- mbrodersen 5y agoThanks for being honest about it. Lots of kudos! It is fine to be happy with a specific language. It is not fine (and very immature) to assume everybody else are idiots. Especially when those “idiots” have created all the software we use.