Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it (2007)

Re:Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it... by krapp on Sunday May 15, 2016 @02:04AM (#11699699)

>Also this web site you are interacting with right this moment as you read this is built on lisp.

And didn't they at one time have to reset the server every few weeks because HN would use up all the RAM or something? That's not something other forums built in lesser languages have to do.

I mean, it obviously works, but would anyone say it works particularly well, even as a Lisp implementation of a web forum?

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Re:Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it... by ryanobjc on Sunday May 15, 2016 @03:06AM (#11699843)

Well other languages cheat in a way, php restarts the runtime frequently, and many other scripting environments do as well.

Also, as a side note, one would be quite surprised how frequently will known companies solve memory problems by restarting processes frequently.

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Re:Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it... by hellofunk on Sunday May 15, 2016 @02:35AM (#11699779)

The RAM issue (if there was one) has nothing to do with the language in this case. If we are talking about lisp, then I assume we are referring to any true lisp, in which case the underlying hardware scenarios widely vary.

I don't know how Arc does it but Clojure's resources are no different than any of the millions of Java web servers running; just a much better language to run on vs Java for that platform.

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