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It’s not that hard to understand why the lisp guy who became a billionaire by making m-expressions work, but kept the tech proprietary, is resented by many here
by User23 4y ago
It’s not that hard to understand why the lisp guy who became a billionaire by making m-expressions work, but kept the tech proprietary, is resented by many here.
Who else has ever achieved that level of success on the back of a programming language, let alone a Lisp? Our host here is the only one in the same ballpark and his success was more on the application side. Arc is no Wolfram language.
- frob 4y agoHonestly, this is the first time I've ever heard of m-expressions. I know of Wolfram from Mathematica and he has HUGE credit in my mind for building that.