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Free open-source high quality Lisp implementations have been available for decades now. Where is all the awesome software written by the self-proclaimed Lisp ge
by mbrodersen 5y ago
Free 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.