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I don't get it. Lisp has been around for like 60 years. If these macros were an objectively better way to write code, why have they not taken over by now?
by jmugan 5y ago
I don't get it. Lisp has been around for like 60 years. If these macros were an objectively better way to write code, why have they not taken over by now?
- yawaramin 5y agoBecause humans are funny creatures that take hundreds of years to convince about seemingly obvious (in hindsight) things? E.g. heliocentrism.
- jmugan 5y agoGood point, but you can't make money with heliocentrism.
- yawaramin 5y agoOK, how about the flat-earth theory? Surely you can make a lot of money if you know the world is a sphere and how to get across it more efficiently than flat-earthers?
- jmugan 5y agoAnother good point. But you need additional technology to profit from that knowledge, which could explain why that came slowly.
- yawaramin 5y agoNot really. All you need is a ship, which you've had (at that point) for hundreds of years already.
- TchoBeer 5y agowhich is why globe-earth took over as the dominant view at least by 0 AD?
- yawaramin 5y agoAfter how many years of flat-earth?