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I was excited about Lisp for a while, primarily based on all the claims of increased productivity. I started going to Lisp and Clojure meetups while learning,
by dbecker 14y ago
I was excited about Lisp for a while, primarily based on all the claims of increased productivity.
I started going to Lisp and Clojure meetups while learning, and I was struck how much LESS productive the supposed gurus at the meetups were in Lisp than I am in Python.
Maybe that reflects on the language. Maybe these people were posers. But the claims I hear seemed inconsistent with what I saw.
- rayiner 14y agoHow much does your problem domain leverage Python's available standard library? I'm pretty familiar with both, and the former is what I use to write stuff when I don't have a library available that does the work for me. The latter is what I use when I don't really have to do much work to leverage something someone else has already built.
- dbecker 14y agoPersonally, my programming involves heavy use of the scientific computing libraries. But my comparison was for general programming that doesn't use these libraries, and which don't rely especially heavily on the standard library.