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Is this what people want, though? Why wouldn't we push for more open, expressive and semantic languages, instead of trying to dust off older languages because o
by tomlin 5y ago
Is this what people want, though? Why wouldn't we push for more open, expressive and semantic languages, instead of trying to dust off older languages because of some abstract warm and fuzzy feeling?
- aidenn0 5y agoTFA seemed neutral to me on this question. It was merely trying to answer "why isn't Lisp more popular" not making a judgement on whether or not doing so would be a good thing. [edit] And the source of the question of Lisp's popularity was here: https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/pdpl5w/hell_is_other_repls/hascujx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/pdpl5w/hell_is_other_... [edit2] And the fact that the author was reading comments in /r/lisp is a pretty strong indication that they have positive thoughts about lisp...