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> Ruby has mostly replaced Lisp in my toolbox. Wow. Would love to hear why. Could you list some of your weighted plusses and minuses for Lisp and Ruby?
by garnet7 17y ago
> Ruby has mostly replaced Lisp in my toolbox.
Wow. Would love to hear why. Could you list some of your weighted plusses and minuses for Lisp and Ruby?
- mark_l_watson 17y agoI used to worry more about good runtime performance. Now I prefer to use a language that is easier and faster to use in development. re: pluses and minuses: Lisp: + better interactive development style; I'll keep a Lisp repla open most of the day. For Ruby, irb is not something that I live in. + really great runtime perfromance - not as many libraries for web frameworks, database, etc. Ruby: + very concise and fun to develop with + many great libraries and frameworks - poor runtime performance