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> wonder why all the Lisp and Haskell programmers .. didn't get off their asses I'm sure all these things exist in these languages, totally unused.

• nineteen999 5y ago
  I actually agree with you - in many cases, I am sure they do. But are they complete, and usuable enough in production? Did they ever acquire enough mindshare? Did they get enough buy in? The clear answer is no.
  • Chris2048 5y ago
    Mindshare and buy-in might be an issue of the ecosystem though. Not enough lisp/Haskell devs.
    • nineteen999 5y ago
      Maybe thats because while those languages solve particular problem, they, or their proponents aren't solving the particular problems at hand.
      • Chris2048 5y ago
        Perhaps, but that's speculation. If nor corp will invest outside fortran, cobol, C++ or java then there's a limit to how much problem solving a small community can do on its own dime. The point is, I think speculative characterisations of <community>-dev members as lazy/unproductive is off mark.