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I’ve only played around with lisp a little bit, what about it makes it a solo programmer tool?
by bstpierre 4y ago
I’ve only played around with lisp a little bit, what about it makes it a solo programmer tool?
- nequo 4y agoI saw it expressed by multiple people whose language of choice was Lisp but the only one that I specifically remember is Ron Garret’s recent post called Lisping at JPL Revisited[1]: All this is a reflection of the so-called Lisp curse, the fundamental problem with Lisp -- its great strength is simultaneously its great weakness. It is super-simple to customize Lisp to suit your personal tastes, and so everyone does, and so you end up with a fragmented ecosystem of little sub-languages, not all of which (to put it mildly) are particularly well designed. He doesn’t specifically say here though that this makes Lisp a solo tool. I can’t find a source for that right now unfortunately. [1] http://blog.rongarret.info/2023/01/lisping-at-jpl-revisited.html http://blog.rongarret.info/2023/01/lisping-at-jpl-revisited....
- tmtvl 4y agoLisp is the most powerful and elegant language. That is a problem because you're giving weak, fallible monkeys phenomenal cosmic powers. Now, many monkeys are well-behaved and disciplined, so they create reasonable, pleasant codebases. But some monkeys go bananas.
- kazinator 4y agoMainly, the online opinions of people who have no Lisp experience, solo or collaborative, but have read something to that effect somewhere.