Why I love Lisp • Hacker News Board

Re: Why I love Lisp

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Post by 5hoom » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 2:18 AM UTC

jff wrote: post #7

tedunangst wrote: post #6

Did something unusual happen today? There's three lisp stories on the front page, which is about 2.9 more than the average day. Just curious.

Somebody probably posted a Lisp story early this morning, it got ranked highly, everybody else noticed that and jumped on the karma bandwagon by posting their own Lisp essays or just their favorite bit of 10-year-old Lisp lore :) Remember, all it takes is one "XYZ sucks" post on the front page to get a front page full of "Why XYZ doesn't suck", "XYZ sucks super hard", "We're using XYZ at my startup", "Successful foun…

But lisp is a pretty interesting XYZ to blather about, you must admit.

I'd rather a million lisp stories than all the non development related human-interest/social-studies stuff that often winds up on the front page ;)

Re: Why I love Lisp

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Post by aerique » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 11:17 AM UTC

pupeno wrote: post #5

aerique wrote: post #3

Minor nitpick on the article: Common Lisp is not a family, it's a standard with many implementations[1][2]. Common Lisp is a member of the Lisp familiy of languages, just like Clojure is. [1] http://www.cliki.net/Common%20Lisp%20implementation [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Implementations

Thanks. I changed the wording to reflect this. Is it better now?

Yup, thanks!

Re: Why I love Lisp

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Post by hamidpalo » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 1:00 PM UTC

The problem with these "Why I love blank language" is that they don't really address real-world usages. Sure, syntax overviews and cherry picked examples that show a quicksort in 5 lines are wonderful but no one writes quicksort.

What about real-world usages in large systems?