Re:Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012)
by bsder on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:32PM
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> I'm convinced Lisp self-asphyxiated by fighting a last stand on parentheses
Lisp self-asphyxiated because the teaching materials were garbage^W poorly focused for normal programmers from 1985-1995.
Stupidly useful things like "Hash Tables" and "Imperative Linear Loops" were always sort of an afterthought/footnote in Lisp books as opposed to "Recursion and Y-combinator" which were 70%+ of the books and 90+% useless to daily programming.
Perl stood up and said "Regexs and Hashes are important, useful on a daily basis, and easy to use." And consequently wiped the floor of the non-systems programming community until Python.
Lisp self-asphyxiated because the teaching materials were garbage^W poorly focused for normal programmers from 1985-1995.
Stupidly useful things like "Hash Tables" and "Imperative Linear Loops" were always sort of an afterthought/footnote in Lisp books as opposed to "Recursion and Y-combinator" which were 70%+ of the books and 90+% useless to daily programming.
Perl stood up and said "Regexs and Hashes are important, useful on a daily basis, and easy to use." And consequently wiped the floor of the non-systems programming community until Python.