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I think that this article was posted a while back. I agree with most points, except for the one about lack of "pre choice" - I've been playing around with Racke
by jonathanyc 14y ago
I think that this article was posted a while back. I agree with most points, except for the one about lack of "pre choice" - I've been playing around with Racket (formerly PLT Scheme) for a while, and the one thing I've been amazed at is the amount of choice. There are a ridiculous number of built-ins.
I think that the failure of Lisp to gain traction is probably better attributed to the other point about too much minimalism being madness. Some of the forms in Racket are pretty crazy.
- dsrguru 14y agoThe failure of Lisp to gain traction historically might also be a result of marketing. Now that people are associating Clojure with things like startups, Heroku, concurrency, and the JVM, it seems to be catching on outside of the Lisp community.
- dsrguru 14y agoI just found this chart (http://tinyurl.com/9f7pxnq http://tinyurl.com/9f7pxnq) of languages Clojure users came from [or are still using] from cemerick's 2012 State of Clojure survey, which suggests that Clojure is not only catching on outside of the LISP community, but almost exclusively so.