Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp
by SanderNL on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:26AM
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Given the myriad other variables that go into a successful software business, the choice of stack and its various modes of expressing whatever transformation on whatever data it is you are mangling is so exceedingly minor a consideration that I'm close to experiencing it as professional negligence to even fuss over it to the degree it is being fussed over by many people.
I'm not dissing Lisp by any means by the way.
Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp
by freilanzer on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:06PM
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I understand your point and it's quite true - but hard problems require adequate tools and I wouldn't choose Java, for example, non-crud stuff.
Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp
by SanderNL on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:24AM
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You would never program Minecraft in it, right?
Probably for the best, but you can and he did and it’ll make you a billionaire all the same.
Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp
by freilanzer on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:34AM
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Personally, no. But Minecraft isn't what I'm talking about.
Given that (I assume) you really do appreciate how much better the stacks of today are then the ones of the past, that seems a highly unwarranted assumption. Heck, I will tell you this: as much as a Lisp stack is better than the alternatives today, it’s not perfect. There’s a ton of future work to improve things even above the current state of the art.
But that state of the art is still better than what everyone else is using. What’s great about Lisp is that improvements are possible: with other technologies, there are more hard limits on what can be done.