What Made Lisp Different (2002)

Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by oblio on Sunday February 18, 2018 @03:43PM (#16408430)

Heh, I forgot that part.

I’d argue that today libraries and super used code (more bugs already found and fixed, more answers on Google) > powerful language.

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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by le-mark on Monday February 19, 2018 @10:57AM (#16413602)

I think the main things that's happened is that many languages and frameworks coalesced to fill the void PG and Morris probably used lisp to such great advantage; ie building featureful, performant web apps. In the mid 90's there was perl I guess. Nowadays there's python, php, ruby/rails, etc.. with all their frameworks and environments. Mak

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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by marcosdumay on Sunday February 18, 2018 @04:24PM (#16408786)

> more bugs already found and fixed

I'd argue that libraries that used to have bugs found and fixed tend to have many more of them to catch you by surprise later. They also tend to have less stable interfaces.

> more answers on Google

Also, the libraries complex enough to need many questions on Stack Overflow are normally the same as the ones above.

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