Re:The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp
by erik_seaberg on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @02:22PM
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"Used in anger" means for a serious goal. It's an analogy for firing a gun in combat rather than just for training or testing.
I haven't been writing a major piece of software in Lisp for 10 years, so I can't write about that. But I can compare how it feels to write software in other languages vs Common Lisp.
And also, Lisp is a blip compared to Rust or Go right now, so I don't know why it's so terrible to talk about it. People will keep talking about the things they like as much as the things they don't like. And it's fine.