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Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language by sroerick on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:35AM (#49974607)
So why not a DSL for a specific business?
Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language by tzmudzin on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:13AM (#49974857)
At least two reasons:

- economies of scale no longer work, and you end up doing a custom ERP for your business from scratch.

- your business changes might invalidate your model quickly. You sell through distributors, but open an online shop -- and suddenly your customer is not one of few dozen well-known businesses with a known address and tax number, but user2252 who bought something late at night last night. And you want to understand the needs and behaviors of both.

Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language by sroerick on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:39AM (#49975027)
Do LLMs change that equation?
Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language by tzmudzin on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:48AM (#49975077)
We will see, but (first thoughts):

- for the economies of scale, you might develop your custom solution 20x faster now, but you're still in competition with the established provides with templates for most of the cases (who btw have the same LLM capability at their disposal)

- for the change in business -- you can ask an LLM which changes this induces, and it will give you most typical impacts. And then you're back at square deciding if it's better to roll your custom DSL and the custom system downstream, or just use off-the-shelf stuff that covers 95% of it from day one (well, maybe day two or three)

Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language by sroerick on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:09AM (#49977279)
Have you tried it yet?