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> One of the ironies of the programming world is that using Lisp is vastly more productive than using pretty much any other programming language, but successful

> One of the ironies of the programming world is that using Lisp is vastly more productive than using pretty much any other programming language, but successful businesses based on Lisp are quite rare. Citation is needed. Paul Graham doesn't count.

10ren 17y ago
Their rarity is clearly true. As for the grandiose assertion of superiority, it's worth noting the context: Lisp programmers never develop the social skills needed to work effectively as a member of a team. Fred Brooks didn't see Lisp as a silver bullet, which a "vastly more productive" language would be. I'm sure he talks about functional languages specifically in his retrospective essay "Still no silver bullet" (or something like that).
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