Re:Why Lisp Did Not and Never Will Gain Enough Traction
by jerf on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @09:20PM
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One could use Javascript to argue that while midlevel languages tend to live in a sort of meritocracy that the very top level of languages always have some sort of immensely-powerful backer that they ride on. JS rode on top of Netscape at time when they were just that powerful. Java rode on Sun. C# and Objective C are there because of their powerful backers Microsoft and Apple.
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Re:Why Lisp Did Not and Never Will Gain Enough Traction
by KirinDave on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @05:46PM
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An interesting idea. I wonderf if this means Go is destined for "greatness".
Re:Why Lisp Did Not and Never Will Gain Enough Traction
by jerf on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @08:31PM
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I think if they wanted to make it happen, they could. They don't seem to care to at the moment, but it's not hard to create plausible scenarios over the next few years where that changes.