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I'm afraid that most people would just read the title and start completing the title with whatever ideas they have about why Lisp is not mainstream. I read the
by mapreduce 3y ago
I'm afraid that most people would just read the title and start completing the title with whatever ideas they have about why Lisp is not mainstream.
I read the whole article and its a lot of words to simply say: There are a lot of factors at play. It could be a mix of those factors.
Beyond that the article does not seem to give any specific insights. It provides many loose analogies to show how something good might not be not mainstream in other walks of life. But it does not go on to elaborate what it is specifically about Lisp.
So I guess I am trying to say I don't know what to do with this article. The talking points are all common sense. And there's nothing specific about Lisp I can learn from this article.
- aredox 3y agoThis article is not about lisp. It is about values and judgement.
- countWSS 3y agoThe main factors are alien syntax and extremely deep abstraction levels, leading to cryptic/dense code like APL but with nested lists instead of arrays.
- ptx 3y agoI'm not even sure all the points are common sense. Is he saying that English is better than Chinese? Or that using a different kind of keyboard for Chinese would be better? Or that the author believes that only English uses the Latin alphabet? What point is he trying to make about golden crowns and Caesar having nothing to conquer? That using Lisp would be pointless if everyone used Lisp because it's only useful for gloating about using the best language?