How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language

Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by oblio on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:37AM (#18228459)

I love how I'm being downvoted for saying that there's no scientific proof that Lisp is superior. Come on, show it, I want to see it. I want to see thorough, statistically representative studies that show Lisp's superiority :)

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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by pjmlp on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:11AM (#18229507)

"How the strengths of Lisp-family languages facilitate building complex and flexible bioinformatics applications."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28040748

-- US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

"Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rSMt1pAlbE

-- GoogleTechTalks

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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by oblio on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:09AM (#18237106)

That's nowhere near something like medical clinical trials, though.

Think of studies where you:

a) have statistically representative sample size (100+ developers)

b) actual numbers and compare them (the average development time needed for the Java/C++/etc. applications was Y and the average development time needed for Lisp applications was Y - Z, where Z > 0, etc.; the average execution time for Java/C++/etc. applications, etc., you get the idea)

Computer Science studies are still in their infancy.

All this Lisp hype is just hype and gut feelings.

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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by DonaldFisk on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @11:39AM (#18230225)

There's Lisp as an Alternative to Java: http://www.flownet.com/gat/papers/lisp-java.pdf

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