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Re:The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp by ds9soft on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @12:04PM (#41710236)
Blog post author here: True. But there's no reason not to write when you are in anger about other languages that you do use every single day. I guess I was just venting and also reaffirming my intention to use CL. I have used it before in a previous job for a quick tool and I know it can be used for more complex stuff, which I have already started building.

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.

Re:The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp by erik_seaberg on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @02:22PM (#41712156)
"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.
Re:The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp by ds9soft on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @04:30PM (#41713762)
Thanks for the correction.
Re:The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp by dunefox on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:53AM (#41718547)
Please do continue to write about Lisp.