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Three years old. When this was written, there was no such thing as Clojure [1], and a number of now-essential CL libraries were just getting started. Providin
by mnemonicsloth 17y ago
Three years old.
When this was written, there was no such thing as Clojure [1], and a number of now-essential CL libraries were just getting started.
Providing no new information, this article just invites needless soapboxing.
[1] Clojure is fast, free, trendy, inherently parallel, and fits seamlessly into the Java ecosystem. It's just an anecdote, but I notice less complaining about parentheses, too.
- cema 17y agoYou are correct. Still I think it offers useful historical perspective.
- mnemonicsloth 17y agoLisp already has too much historical perspective. That's one of the things people like about Clojure.
- camccann 17y agoIt's just an anecdote, but I notice less complaining about parentheses, too. I still like the idea of "Lisp with syntactic whitespace". A few simple transformation rules to add implicit parentheses based on indentation would make it a lot more readable for people who aren't already veteran Smug Lisp Weenies. There was even a specification written for adding it to Scheme: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html
- ynniv 17y agoIt didn't feel needless when I wrote it. The lisp community was sitting on their haunches (their laurels had long rotted away), and silly new languages were stealing lisp's thunder. Today, I would probably have written about how clojure will soon be "killing" python, so maybe I'm just a soapboxer.