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> Replacing Lisp's beautiful parentheses with dozens of special tools and languages, none powerful enough to conquer the whole software landscape, leads to frag
by cryptonector 2y ago
> Replacing Lisp's beautiful parentheses with dozens of special tools and languages, none powerful enough to conquer the whole software landscape, leads to fragmentation and extra effort from everyone, vendors and developers alike. The automotive field is a case in point.
This completely ignores Haskell.
- tsimionescu 2y agoHaskell is a niche language, not widely used in any industry, and it has nothing like the power and tooling of Lisp. What would be its place in this discussion?
- bunderbunder 2y agoLast I checked, the closest Haskell gets to first-class metaprogramming is compiler extensions.