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My opinion: marketing. In my experience, if I tell someone „look here is Lisp“ they turn off and roll the eyes with a „ohh that DEAD origramming language“. If I
by f1shy 3y ago
My opinion: marketing. In my experience, if I tell someone „look here is Lisp“ they turn off and roll the eyes with a „ohh that DEAD origramming language“.
If I instead say „look this new state of the art language called ML“ I get full attention and respect.
- ajbt200128 3y agoNo, it's definitely not because of marketing. SML is more of a dead language than most lisps. SML is used because it has a strong type checker, which is much more conducive to learning, and just having resilient programs in general.
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