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> Normal people don't like lisp, it looks weird. Have you considered that this is perhaps not a problem with lisp? Normal people do not much like writing compu
by tasuki 4y ago
> Normal people don't like lisp, it looks weird.
Have you considered that this is perhaps not a problem with lisp? Normal people do not much like writing computer programs at all.
- oblio 4y agoThe empirical evident would be against you, as tens of millions of programmers prefer writing code in those other languages that lack the parent :-)
- christophilus 4y agoThey may or may not. I prefer lisp, but I mostly program in TypeScript and Go. My theory is that if most programmers tried lisp for a month or two, they’d end up preferring it.
- mst 4y agoI learned lisp (well, mostly scheme) just enough to be dangerous - and to have a lot of fun. I don't end to find myself -writing- lisp very often but in a lot of cases I end up -thinking- in lisp and then translating across to whatever language I'm implementing in before I start typing.
- tasuki 4y agoMy claim was that normal people preferred not to write any programs at all in any language. As to programmers, obviously there are smarter ones and less smart ones and to each his own. Here, a weirdly misplaced smiley back at you :-)
- oblio 4y agoSmugness doesn't make one smart. Lispers have plenty of the former, though ;-)