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>>If the subset of Lisp that allows scripting is fine for you, that's great. Well, the point was that I don't see why subsets have taken over, it's as if PHP g
by berntb 17y ago
>>If the subset of Lisp that allows scripting is fine for you, that's great.
Well, the point was that I don't see why subsets have taken over, it's as if PHP grew larger than the rest of the scripting languages for web progr... Oh, wait. :-)
But seriously, if you take the hit of a GC (which most everything do, today) then you might as well use the nicest system around. I am happy with my present tools, but a nice lisp variant might seriously tempt me.
Sigh, maybe I should just look for different work or do a startup with really hard problems.
- brlewis 17y agoThe performance hit of a GC is less than the hit of a language that wasn't designed to be compiler-friendly. Scheme or CL will perform better than scripting languages. You don't need really hard problems before the benefits of a language with macros become obvious. SQL-driven web apps are a lot easier to write if you have macros, for example: http://brl.codesimply.net/brl_4.html#SEC31 http://brl.codesimply.net/brl_4.html#SEC31