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Re:The Lisp Curse by jhuni on Friday April 15, 2011 @11:49PM (#2453101)
The beauty of Lisp is in its simplicity. Lisp has the simplest syntax in the world, and the entire language is based upon five simple primitives.

All other mainstream languages complicate matters with operator precedence tables, multiple operator notations (prefix, infix, postfix, postcircumfix, etc), and many other syntactic weirdities.

The simplicity of the language makes it the best language there is for collaboration. Lisp is not to blame here - the community is.

A properly organized community can create standards for the use of macros to prevent their abuse and standardize on libraries to prevent fragmentation. Unfortunately, the Lisp community isn't well organized.

Re:The Lisp Curse by winestock on Saturday April 16, 2011 @12:14AM (#2453141)
Lisp is not to blame here - the community is.

A properly organized community can create standards for the use of macros to prevent their abuse and standardize on libraries to prevent fragmentation. Unfortunately, the Lisp community isn't well organized.

In other words, it's not a technical issue, it's a social issue.

Re:The Lisp Curse by Peaker on Saturday April 16, 2011 @08:26AM (#2453821)
Simplicity of languages can and does (in many cases) translate to complexity of programs.

There are features that complicate the language and simplify programs and vice versa.

Re:The Lisp Curse by kacper on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @11:14AM (#2466923)
Btw, how popular is Lips? Learning languages is fun, but can you get a job knowing only Lisp ?