Re:Lisp is Poetry and Most Programmers Want Prose (2006)
by bad_user on Monday May 31, 2010 @04:38PM
(#1393431)
> Sridhar's whole argument hinges on this dichotomy between choosing great tools and having a great finished product ... It is a false dichotomy - In some situations you don't have to choose one to the exclusion of the other
And yet this is what happens when speaking about LISP developers ... they are usually those very smart kinds that learn things as they go along, so they never have to work through high-school / college.
The most productive communities (i.e. number of useful applications / number of lines of code / number of people actively involved) have always been those that favor handicapped languages like Basic, PHP, Java and C++.
That doesn't mean one shouldn't use LISP to get shit done (correlation is not causation), just don't get trapped in a never ending cycle of yak-shaving ... also keep in mind that personal preferences usually define who you are ... personally I don't want to be the brilliant kid that never finishes anything.
And yet this is what happens when speaking about LISP developers ... they are usually those very smart kinds that learn things as they go along, so they never have to work through high-school / college.
The most productive communities (i.e. number of useful applications / number of lines of code / number of people actively involved) have always been those that favor handicapped languages like Basic, PHP, Java and C++.
That doesn't mean one shouldn't use LISP to get shit done (correlation is not causation), just don't get trapped in a never ending cycle of yak-shaving ... also keep in mind that personal preferences usually define who you are ... personally I don't want to be the brilliant kid that never finishes anything.