> Well, a particular genre of programming languages (Lisps) is essentially immune to the network effect, unlike most other languages. This is because Lisp makes

> Well, a particular genre of programming languages (Lisps) is essentially immune to the network effect, unlike most other languages. This is because Lisp makes it very easy to write your own libraries from scratch; people who use Lisp tend to do that instead of reusing third-party dependencies. What? Lisp makes implementing libraries no easier or harder than most other languages. Even the original author afair criticised his own article about the lisp curse some time ago.