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We hit a local maximum in language design with Common Lisp in the 80's. I mean putting in the hard work to make a language be as powerful as you can imagine. T
by kaveh808 4y ago
We hit a local maximum in language design with Common Lisp in the 80's. I mean putting in the hard work to make a language be as powerful as you can imagine.
Today the market moves too fast, priorities have changed, and there seems to less of a willingness to "do the right thing".
- kbrannigan 4y ago>> Priorities have changed My assumption is that, nobody knew there would be that much cash involved in this industry. It's about making the most money the fastest way possible.
- kaveh808 4y agoCompare the 10-year effort for the ANSI standardization of Common Lisp with the two-week, ill-considered marketing-directed creation of JavaScript, now one of the world's most popular languages, and the resultant decades of technical debt.