nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq9y8xknr5twkrg2aeu6dyt9rhk5eg6punm4kl4q07pp0av8aa47es8dl9v9 (nprofile…l9v9) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqan7t2zdg4nxvf2q938ctdr23er9mmerxa8yr2te847wlnj6q7k7qrasr67 (nprofile…sr67) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqagg9ve54u0p3s3ltf5ql94t9rrmnec06jsljvzs72fju53uzdrjq94re6y (nprofile…re6y) Religion sucks. I didn't read the entire article because the intro makes it so obvious that it is religious.
Languages constantly absorb Lisp features because it was obviously the right way to go. People wanted ~simple~ slobberproof instead. Yet, they never got there.
Lisp got simpler, but by that time we had sofa king many toy languages that eventually became real languages, that there is no way to back track.
So here we are. Lisp is ancient. It is incredibly powerful (and the only reason I retain my interest in it since also the 80's), but the battles are useless.
Wait until we find the fuzzy line between quantum computing and AI, and then nobody ever has to code... just have to say what you want, burn down a rainforest, and wait for the product.
The religious part has been going on so long you'd think people would just tire of it and stop repeating it. But noooo, can't be done, I guess.
I'm going to post a much nicer article later this week about using #commonlisp to interpret scientific notation.
I don't care about whether it can be done in other languages. In fact, it would be really weird if it couldn't be.
I celebrate the differences, so hopefully the article I'm writing (it's done... just making it more readable) will be entertaining enough that people who traditionally involve themselves in these silly battles will just put forth code and enjoy the fact that it works, and is sometimes really clever.
Karsten Johansson /
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2025-02-19 07:41:26
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