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Interestingly, there appears to be an attempted reboot: https://lisp-stat.dev/ https://lisp-stat.dev/ My first reaction, is "why not on a modern Scheme as oppo
by peatmoss 5y ago
Interestingly, there appears to be an attempted reboot: https://lisp-stat.dev/ https://lisp-stat.dev/
My first reaction, is "why not on a modern Scheme as opposed to Common Lisp" and in so thinking, I have demonstrated exactly why no lisp / scheme has ever achieved critical mass :-)
- jdougan 5y agoObvious answer: 3rd party library support. Same thing that makes R ubiquitous.
- jhgb 5y agoI would think that the reasons for "why not Scheme" would include the fact that CL has more existing libraries, better built-in support for multidimensional arrays, efficient low-level code (now even with SIMD on SBCL using SB-SIMD), application-controlled JIT compilation of specialized code, almost guaranteed support for native multithreading, etc.
- kwccoin 5y agoShocking. I still using the xlisp-stat based social simulation book first edition (20+ years ago). The move to ... does not fit my mind. I do not know there is a re-start!!!