Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language
by lispm on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:16AM
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> There seems to be a connection between scaling a project regarding developer numbers and programming language "power". Having a smaller, shared vocabulary seems to greatly outweigh programming language "power" as the number of programmers goes up greatly.
That goes against evidence from current enterprise software experience. The Java eco-system has the absolute largest programming vocabulary ever (J2EE, JEE, ...) and is widely used.
AT&T/Lucent once wrote the software for a telephony switch in Lisp - I think the project ran over a decade and created more than one generation of working/shipping hard&software. The team was easily 100+ people. I heard a talk of the responsible manager years ago. They wrote basically the same functionality as a ten times larger C++ project and the Lisp team lead was extremely satisfied with what they wrote.
AT&T Management favored the C++ project for mostly non-technical reasons - C++ being an 'industry language' with a larger supply of developers. Not surprising for AT&T - Ericsson made a similar decision at some point in time with their (later lifted) 'Erlang ban'.
That goes against evidence from current enterprise software experience. The Java eco-system has the absolute largest programming vocabulary ever (J2EE, JEE, ...) and is widely used.
AT&T/Lucent once wrote the software for a telephony switch in Lisp - I think the project ran over a decade and created more than one generation of working/shipping hard&software. The team was easily 100+ people. I heard a talk of the responsible manager years ago. They wrote basically the same functionality as a ten times larger C++ project and the Lisp team lead was extremely satisfied with what they wrote.
AT&T Management favored the C++ project for mostly non-technical reasons - C++ being an 'industry language' with a larger supply of developers. Not surprising for AT&T - Ericsson made a similar decision at some point in time with their (later lifted) 'Erlang ban'.