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Why do people tag the year on articles? I feel like hackers cling to the “if it’s not new, it’s not worthy” paradigm. Update: Thanks for all the replies, makes sense. Why downvote an honest question?
Why is HN this interested in Lisp anyway? Not saying it's a good or bad language, just don't quite get why it receives as much attention as it does.
Over time I noticed that posts about Lisp were quite common and decided to read up on it thinking there must be something to it if people bring it up again and again. Has been a gratifying journey so far.
Why is HN this interested in Lisp anyway? Not saying it's a good or bad language, just don't quite get why it receives as much attention as it does.
Alas one of the problems Lisp does quite acutely suffer from is that SBCL has become a defacto standard and its support for anything that isn't GNU/Linux (like Solaris / illumos) is dismal.
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What organization hosts HN? From what computer science construct does that organization's name come from? Who founded that organization? How did that person get wealthy enough to start seed funding other companies? Did that person write not one, but two books on Common Lisp? Just some points to ponder.
Oh really, that's interesting. Is that sort of info widely known among the HN user base and I'm an ignoramus or is it a case of some of the users of longer standing being vocal about Lisp?
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What organization hosts HN? From what computer science construct does that organization's name come from? Who founded that organization? How did that person get wealthy enough to start seed funding other companies? Did that person write not one, but two books on Common Lisp? Just some points to ponder.
Oh really, that's interesting. Is that sort of info widely known among the HN user base and I'm an ignoramus or is it a case of some of the users of longer standing being vocal about Lisp?
Also if one knows a bit about Lisp history, the headline "O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp" triggers some memories, since for a long time O'Reilly actively discouraged people from trying to contact them about publishing Lisp books. ;-)
Why is HN this interested in Lisp anyway? Not saying it's a good or bad language, just don't quite get why it receives as much attention as it does.
I was wondering the same thing. IIRC I found hn without having a clue about either Lisp nor about Startups or YCombinator. Over time I noticed that posts about Lisp were quite common and decided to read up on it thinking there must be something to it if people bring it up again and again. Has been a gratifying journey so far.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh really, that's interesting. Is that sort of info widely known among the HN user base and I'm an ignoramus or is it a case of some of the users of longer standing being vocal about Lisp?
I would guess that the majority of HN users never even think about the fact that the site is affiliated with Y Combinator and its associated personalities.
Why is HN this interested in Lisp anyway? Not saying it's a good or bad language, just don't quite get why it receives as much attention as it does.
The following applies to Common Lisp at least, if not others.
It is homoiconic and most implementations are written in Lisp.
It is very open, in that you can inspect existing structures from the REPL.
It has a long history and was the language where many common software paradigms were developed.
It comes with powerful builtin tools like a debugger with restarts where you can make changes to the system live.
The core language is very small but doesn't constrain what can be done with it.
Why is HN this interested in Lisp anyway? Not saying it's a good or bad language, just don't quite get why it receives as much attention as it does.
Why is HN this interested in Lisp anyway? Not saying it's a good or bad language, just don't quite get why it receives as much attention as it does.
I don't feel it gets any more attention than Python, C, C++ or any of the functional languages. What do you have against Lisp?