**Lisp: more is less**
There’s recently been a resurgence of interest in Lisp (specifically, Clojure) in my neighborhood. I have some kind of a fondness for Lisp, but I think some of its characteristics make it poorly suited for use in large programming efforts. Indeed many of the unique properties that Lisp devotees (myself once included) tout over other languages, like homoiconicity, make Lisp into an unweidly, conceptual sledgehammer that’s often out of scale with the problem being solved.**Lisp: more is less**
There’s recently been a resurgence of interest in Lisp (specifically, Clojure) in my neighborhood. I have some kind of a fondness for Lisp, but I think some of its characteristics make it poorly suited for use in large prog…
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