Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012)
by yogthos on Thursday February 12, 2015 @10:11PM
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I'm not sure what you're talking about here. The latest language in Lisp family is Clojure and it came out in 2007. The syntax that it uses is quite a bit different from Lisps from 30 years go.
Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012)
by taeric on Thursday February 12, 2015 @11:48PM
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I wouldn't call it quite a bit different. Really just seems to have a few small changes where they prefer [] over (). Otherwise just a different set of standard macros.
Or are you referring to some other difference?
Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012)
by coldtea on Friday February 13, 2015 @09:32AM
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Clojure is not that different, but besides that, parent implied changes from Lisp circa '60s that were already in CommonLisp and Scheme 30 years ago...
Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012)
by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 12, 2015 @04:34PM
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I understand that by "IT industry" you mean the Web, which is the industry's equivalent of a fashion show.
Work clothes, suits and hazmat wear also don't change their design every three months.
Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012)
by laichzeit0 on Friday February 13, 2015 @12:58AM
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Not redesign, but recycle old ideas. It might change in details, but as far as I've thus far observed, IT operates in cycles. The terminal + mainframe -> the personal computer -> the cloud (personal mainframe) -> ?
Like cycles in economics, climate, fashion, etc.
An interesting take on "modern", meaning "the last 3 decades or so", which is like millenia in the IT industry...