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Re:The Lisp Curse (2011) by incepted on Thursday February 25, 2016 @06:47PM (#11178797)
Not many, but even so, this is never the right question to ask.

That question would be: what programs are written in <LANGUAGE> that couldn't benefit from being rewritten in another language?

And most often, the answer to that question is none.

Because languages matter a lot less than language fanatics want you to think.

As for Lisp, I used to be a total fan until I realize the importance of a sound static type system, and now I will never go back. Lisp will never go anywhere because this is the 21st century and we know now that static type systems are an absolute requirement for modern programming.

Re:The Lisp Curse (2011) by lokedhs on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:17PM (#11179225)
Right. That's why no one seriously consider Javascript for any new project, and no one would propose the idea of using it on a server.

I am not saying that you are wrong in liking static typing, but arguing that dynamically typed languages are non-starters in this decade is a statement that is easily disproven by the existence of Javascript.