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>pg is a lisp guy but I don't see the Clojure connection. Pg -> promoting Lisps. Clojure -> a Lisp. Pg -> influential. Clojure -> got traction on HN and startu

by batista 14y ago

>pg is a lisp guy but I don't see the Clojure connection. Pg -> promoting Lisps. Clojure -> a Lisp. Pg -> influential. Clojure -> got traction on HN and startup crowd.

mattdeboard 14y ago
This is getting pretty close to the Chewbacca defense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
scottlocklin 14y ago
I thought it was pretty obvious. I had a lisp book before I read Graham's essays. I only seriously looked into lisp after PG convinced me to.
- mattdeboard 14y ago
  It's pretty obvious to you because it's true to you. I guess the irony is lost on you that you've just written a rant about how all programmers aren't the same, and in that rant paint with broad strokes about Clojure is only popular because we've all fallen under the sway of the Paul Graham hypnotoad. Not true. Some of us have fallen under the sway of the Rich Hickey hypnotoad. :) Anyway, point being that Clojure is gaining traction because it has some objective strengths that converge in a way that isn't common in the realm of programming languages.
  - scottlocklin 14y ago
    I believe I covered that. Though if it were not for PG, everyone would think RH was weird for doing it in Lisp.
    - mattdeboard 14y ago
      You keep saying "everyone" when you mean "I".
      - michaelcampbell 14y ago
        And you keep wanting people to mean only "I" when they mean "some".
- Evbn 14y ago
  I did too. The book was On Lisp, by Paul Graham.