How Lisp is Going to Save the World
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How Lisp is Going to Save the World
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Re: How Lisp is Going to Save the World
#2Wow, that went from a supposed linkbait title to a surprisingly amusing and interesting explanation of Lisp
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#3No bugs when programming in Lisp? No way ...
Re: How Lisp is Going to Save the World
#4Wow, that went from a supposed linkbait title to a surprisingly amusing and interesting explanation of Lisp
Thank you. Admittedly, I intentionally worded it to look like one :)
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#5I am a intermediate programmer with just over one year experience.
Everywhere I read about the power of lisp and really want to use it. If it is so good why ain't it is used more?
It is very easy to get sites running using ASP .NET, wordpress, RoR or Django. I have worked on production sites using the first two. And personally tried on small projects on the last two.
Is there a way to use Lisp professionally?
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#6I am a intermediate programmer with just over one year experience. Everywhere I read about the power of lisp and really want to use it. If it is so good why ain't it is used more? It is very easy to get sites running using ASP .NET, wordpress, RoR or Django. I have worked on production sites using the first two. And personally tried on small projects on the last two. Is there a way to use Lisp professionally?
I am not too sure about Lisp in particular (especially there's at least few dialects of it, afaik) but I am currently looking into Clojure and, apart from bending my brain, tossing it into a rubbish bin then fetching and putting it back in, I like it very much.
Also, there's a Noir [1] framework build on top of it.
Re: How Lisp is Going to Save the World
#7I am a intermediate programmer with just over one year experience. Everywhere I read about the power of lisp and really want to use it. If it is so good why ain't it is used more? It is very easy to get sites running using ASP .NET, wordpress, RoR or Django. I have worked on production sites using the first two. And personally tried on small projects on the last two. Is there a way to use Lisp professionally?
Check out Lispjobs. http://lispjobs.wordpress.com
Re: How Lisp is Going to Save the World
#8I am a intermediate programmer with just over one year experience. Everywhere I read about the power of lisp and really want to use it. If it is so good why ain't it is used more? It is very easy to get sites running using ASP .NET, wordpress, RoR or Django. I have worked on production sites using the first two. And personally tried on small projects on the last two. Is there a way to use Lisp professionally?
Well if you want to use common lisp to make a web page, Conrad Barski(who drew the OP comic) has a guide here: http://lisperati.com/quick.html
Re: How Lisp is Going to Save the World
#9I am a intermediate programmer with just over one year experience. Everywhere I read about the power of lisp and really want to use it. If it is so good why ain't it is used more? It is very easy to get sites running using ASP .NET, wordpress, RoR or Django. I have worked on production sites using the first two. And personally tried on small projects on the last two. Is there a way to use Lisp professionally?
I am not too sure about Lisp in particular (especially there's at least few dialects of it, afaik) but I am currently looking into Clojure and, apart from bending my brain, tossing it into a rubbish bin then fetching and putting it back in, I like it very much. Also, there's a Noir [1] framework build on top of it. [1] http://www.webnoir.org/
Apparently Noir is deprecated in favor of Compojure, according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027560.
Re: How Lisp is Going to Save the World
#10I am a intermediate programmer with just over one year experience. Everywhere I read about the power of lisp and really want to use it. If it is so good why ain't it is used more? It is very easy to get sites running using ASP .NET, wordpress, RoR or Django. I have worked on production sites using the first two. And personally tried on small projects on the last two. Is there a way to use Lisp professionally?
Here's one bank that is blogging about moving to Clojure:
http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=778
It is used in a few places, but its not common. The reason it isn't used often is because no one bothered to build anything with it. So, if Clojure / Lisp / etc want to make the language popular, you should build something that makes money and tell the world about it. This is what happened with RoR and Django.
I have a CRUD site written in Clojure. All total is around 1,500 LOC. I only have to add in a mailing feature and and one other small operation and take it off the now-deprecated Noir framework. All told, it will still be 1,500 LOC, I think. It takes in quite a bit of information, has multiple "views," dynamically generates HTML, connects to a database, and allows quite a few unique operations, so it's actually very easy to create a website in Clojure, and it can be highly elegant once you get used to the data structures and how to destructure.
The Clojure community has done an excellent job to make the process of building -> deployment very easy, it's just that no one has stepped up to the plate and did anything with the tools, and unfortunately, I fear Lisp will always be a Land of Toys and No Product Shipped.