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Re:From design patterns to category theory by hoorayimhelping on Thursday October 05, 2017 @07:22AM (#15408263)
How many stack overflow questions and answers are there for lisp(s)? How many for Java? How many applications on the web are written in a lisp? How many are written in Java (or Python or Ruby or PHP)?

There's a lot more to accessibility than how easy the syntax is to grok. This is just one simple and limited example.

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Re:From design patterns to category theory by flavio81 on Friday October 06, 2017 @01:33PM (#15418589)
>How many stack overflow questions and answers are there for lisp

Yet there are a ton of books written about Lisp in all kinds of topics and applications. Not to mention really well-written tutorials like "Practical Common Lisp".

Plus, the documentation/reference of the language itself is comprehensive and well written, comparing favorably to the documentation for most programming languages out there.

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Re:From design patterns to category theory by flavio81 on Friday October 06, 2017 @01:35PM (#15418612)
>How many applications on the web are written in a lisp?

You are using one right now: Hacker News is written on a Lisp: Arc.

Also, the first HTTP 1.1 compliant server and used by the W3C to debug the HTTP 1.1 reference implementation, was written in Common Lisp.

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