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When the elegant and sophisticated gets rejected

• sebastianconcpt 12y ago
  "I believe that Lisp was, in a sense, too advanced for its own good. Because it is, as it were, pre-optimized for AI applications, and most commercial software just doesn't need that kind of sophistication. Maybe, as the industry and our clients mature, this mismatch will go away and Gabriel's NextLisp will come to the fore. I'm very interested to see if the Scandinavians can do for FP with the ErlangLanguage what they've done for Objects." -- KeithBraithwaite "Smalltalk's lack of popularity, on the other hand, can simply be explained, historically, by price, and currently by bad marketing. Most newbies simply know of Smalltalk as the ideological predecessor to Java language - they think of it the same way they think of Cobol. Neither of these languages failed for being "too expressive" or "too obfuscated". Perl, C Macros, and scripted Excel Spreadsheets are used more frequently and produce maintenance horrors that completely outdo clever Lisp macros... but they're all conceptually familiar concepts to the users who learn to use them." -- MartinZarate