Re:Not Lisp again (2009)
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:38PM
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6: Lisp is ancient. It really is.
Also on the front page of HN today: SQL is 43 years old.
So, exactly what is the problem with being ancient? Nobody objects to SQL on those grounds. So I suspect that 6 is really "I want to object, and I found a plausible-sounding reason to do so". (It could be people who actually evaluate stuff based on how new it is. But I'd prefer to think that there aren't people who really evaluate languages that way...)
Also on the front page of HN today: SQL is 43 years old.
So, exactly what is the problem with being ancient? Nobody objects to SQL on those grounds. So I suspect that 6 is really "I want to object, and I found a plausible-sounding reason to do so". (It could be people who actually evaluate stuff based on how new it is. But I'd prefer to think that there aren't people who really evaluate languages that way...)