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The CL community clearly doesn’t value working together to make Lisp a real world productive language. That’s why the world runs on C/C++ and not Lisp.
by mbrodersen 5y ago
The CL community clearly doesn’t value working together to make Lisp a real world productive language. That’s why the world runs on C/C++ and not Lisp.
- jhgb 5y agoNo, the world runs on C/C++ mostly because CL vendors were too greedy. It's difficult to convince people to use a $100k environment when you could have gotten a $2k environment instead.
- mbrodersen 5y agoFree open-source high quality Lisp implementations have been available for decades now. Where is all the awesome software written by the self-proclaimed Lisp geniuses? With people that clever and with access to a language that powerful surely software written in Lisp should be totally dominating by now. Surely all the “crappy” software written by those non-smart non-Lisp developers should have been totally outclassed by now right? And yet it isn’t. Not even close. Lisp has had close to zero impact on the real world. So perhaps, just perhaps, the Lisp developers are no more smart than the rest of us and perhaps, just perhaps, Lisp isn’t a more productive language that the languages used by everybody else.