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Re: How I lost my faith in Lisp

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Post by gtani »

mahmud wrote: post #29

I don't speak for the author, but I had the feeling he would retract those remarks today, based on our exchanges here on HN. In other news, STFU and hack. Enough with Lisp politics posts. It's just a language.

Sadly, these multiple identities are not angry enough to qualify him as a "Mad people of comp.lang.lisp"

http://www.tfeb.org/lisp/mad-people.html

Re: How I lost my faith in Lisp

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Post by RyanMcGreal »

nickik wrote: post #11

He says norvig left lisp behind when he came to google witch is true but in Codes at Work he basiclly says that it was to hard to retrain all those C++ Programmers to Lisp was to much work and he uses Python because its a better sudo-code. He still thinks lisp is better for big projects. It was again the problem that people where all trained in C/C++.

> its a better sudo-code

Now that's a powerful language. :)

Re: How I lost my faith in Lisp

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Post by parfe »

mahmud wrote: post #29

I don't speak for the author, but I had the feeling he would retract those remarks today, based on our exchanges here on HN. In other news, STFU and hack. Enough with Lisp politics posts. It's just a language.

Do you know of any startups using a LISP as the primary dev language?

Re: How I lost my faith in Lisp

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Post by dspeyer »

Note python.

The beginning of the article was all Lisp demolishing C and Fortran. Then he saw that Python could stand up to it. Most of the flexibility, nicer syntax and better libraries.

Lisp has stood still for the past 25 years. Is it any surprise the rest of the world caught up?

Re: How I lost my faith in Lisp

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Post by nickik »

parfe wrote: post #35
mahmud wrote: post #29

I don't speak for the author, but I had the feeling he would retract those remarks today, based on our exchanges here on HN. In other news, STFU and hack. Enough with Lisp politics posts. It's just a language.

Do you know of any startups using a LISP as the primary dev language?

Yep, I just been to the new lisp meeting in Zürich. The meeting was by a startup that do pretty cool networking stuff. The use like 80% lisp, some low level C code and a tiny bit of R.

http://teclo.net/

Re: How I lost my faith in Lisp

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Post by [deleted] »

parfe wrote: post #35
mahmud wrote: post #29

I don't speak for the author, but I had the feeling he would retract those remarks today, based on our exchanges here on HN. In other news, STFU and hack. Enough with Lisp politics posts. It's just a language.

Do you know of any startups using a LISP as the primary dev language?

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Re: How I lost my faith in Lisp

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Post by motxilo »

dspeyer wrote: post #36

Note python. The beginning of the article was all Lisp demolishing C and Fortran. Then he saw that Python could stand up to it. Most of the flexibility, nicer syntax and better libraries. Lisp has stood still for the past 25 years. Is it any surprise the rest of the world caught up?

Yeah, a total surprise that the world has taken 25 yrs to catch up.

Re: How I lost my faith in Lisp

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Post by rgoddard »

parfe wrote: post #35
mahmud wrote: post #29

I don't speak for the author, but I had the feeling he would retract those remarks today, based on our exchanges here on HN. In other news, STFU and hack. Enough with Lisp politics posts. It's just a language.

Do you know of any startups using a LISP as the primary dev language?

Flightcaster was using clojure as a core part of their infrastructure.
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