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I don’t understand why old programmers are so much fascinated by lisp. If it would have been good it would have survived today.
by master_yoda_1 5y ago
I don’t understand why old programmers are so much fascinated by lisp. If it would have been good it would have survived today.
- agumonkey 5y ago'(Quality troll thanks)
- bear8642 5y agoBut it has survived - Clojure, a JVM lisp dialect, flourishes! Feel part of what makes lisp fascinating is its simplicity and power leading to its place as a test bed for ideas such as continuations and Kanren, a new logic programming language.
- inimino 5y ago...posted on a site that was developed on a Lisp dialect.
- musicale 5y ago1. It's all their feeble minds can understand. (This is the answer you were fishing for, yes?) 2. Too many MIT grads were brainwashed by SICP until MIT sensibly switched to Python in 2009. (Unfortunately they probably still secretly teach SICP somewhere.) 3. Lisp/Scheme readily implements "Maxwell's equations of software" which are believed to be important or useful for some reason. /s
- musicale 5y agoI guess someone didn't see the /s or maybe OP was not amused.
- jounker 5y agoIt’s almost like they understand something that you don’t.
- elviejo 5y agoBecause we were educated before "flavor of the month" JavaScript framework... And because if that we can appreciate elegant and practical tools and ideas. See also emacs and vim.