Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006)
by flavio81 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @12:23PM
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>why Lisp has so much admiration and praise on HN. I played around with Scheme some long time ago, read SICP, learned a lot
Just consider that, while being a very beautiful language, Scheme is different to Common Lisp.
If you are faced with doing a production system, you'll feel the benefits of Common Lisp, particularly now in 2018 where the tooling and libs are much better.
Scheme can do everything that CL can do IF you add a ton of extensions and libraries and stick to a particular scheme implementation. So you would have a "custom" platform. Where as with plain-vanilla Common Lisp you would have all these features but in a totally standardized way.
Just consider that, while being a very beautiful language, Scheme is different to Common Lisp.
If you are faced with doing a production system, you'll feel the benefits of Common Lisp, particularly now in 2018 where the tooling and libs are much better.
Scheme can do everything that CL can do IF you add a ton of extensions and libraries and stick to a particular scheme implementation. So you would have a "custom" platform. Where as with plain-vanilla Common Lisp you would have all these features but in a totally standardized way.