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Without paying too much attention to the essay's content, the simplest explanation is that Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure are more compelling. Lispers are alw
by fusiongyro 14y ago
Without paying too much attention to the essay's content, the simplest explanation is that Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure are more compelling.
Lispers are always tempted to blame Lisp's niche status on being too advanced, but it always sounds a bit like a smug non-answer to the job interview classic "what's your biggest weakness?" One friend who likes the syntax plus the existence of reader macros does not prove the syntax is not a big issue.
That said I think his conclusion is pretty sound, though you'd be hard-pressed to find much evidence of Unix-friendliness in C# or Java.
- chalst 14y agoMaybe "friendly to a sufficiently powerful runtime" should replace "Unix-friendliness"?
- fusiongyro 14y agoThat's good. I mean, people complained about using Git in Windows for ages because it was too Unix-friendly. At the same time, almost nobody actually likes SML/NJ, and I think part of that is because it has its own strange build system rather than autoconf/make/cmake etc. and until a few years ago really couldn't produce standalone executables.