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Paul Graham felt all development should be in Lisp. Problem is readability by maintainers in the future. To facilitate that, the number of characters in the c
by aj7 2y ago
Paul Graham felt all development should be in Lisp. Problem is readability by maintainers in the future. To facilitate that, the number of characters in the comments would have to exceed that in the code.
- barrell 2y agoEven with all those comments, it still ends up being less characters than other languages :D
- CaptainOfCoit 2y ago> Problem is readability by maintainers in the future Sounds like a problem that exists in every single programming language to date. And the reason that problem appears is not because of the languages themselves.
- giovannibonetti 2y agoSome languages are designed with a strong focus in simplicity and great compiler errors to overcome that issue as much as possible. Gleam and Elm are some of them.
- iLemming 2y ago> Problem is readability by maintainers in the future. Of course. That's why some massive projects got abandoned because nobody understood the code they were originally written in. Does anyone even remember Emacs, or AutoCAD, or Datomic? There were companies that went bankrupt because their Lisp codebases became obsolete. Remember Cisco? Or Apple (those idiots tried to build their payment system in Clojure), or Walmart? Or NASA (before they succumbed to the will of evil Elon). Maybe smaller companies like Pitch, or Funding Circle, or CircleCI, or Grammarly? No? Sigh, nobody cares anymore about the history of dead programming languages.
- Capricorn2481 2y agoDo you have anything suggesting these weren't just abandoned like most projects are? Is there some interview with the CTO saying "Lisp made this impossible"? We abandoned a project in Python. Is Python unusable?
- iLemming 2y agoI have weird sense of sarcasm, sorry.
- Capricorn2481 2y agoNo that makes more sense now lol.