/prog/ - lisp really is a stupid language

Name: Haxxus the Trolled 2014-09-04 3:15

"lisp really is a stupid language", say captains of industry: http://www.crazyontap.com/topic.php?TopicId=77343

There's some measure of "purity" working at that level of abstraction -- not a lot of messy syntax in the way. Of course, the reason we don't work at that level is humans are syntax machines. Lisp is more machine-level than human-level.

Languages like Lisp were adopted because companies did not want to invest money in a real language. It is easy to write a parser for a Lisp-like language. The parser pushes the token into a stack, and pops up when right parenthesis is found. Those languages are not suitable for human consumption, difficult to read and maintain.

Not only is it a stupid language but its deficiencies are so severe and obvious that anyone who doesn't see them should be kept far far away from software development.

IHBT

Name: Anonymous 2014-09-04 3:17

humans aren't machines you nigger atheist

Name: Anonymous 2014-09-04 5:45

>>1
too many.

Name: Anonymous 2014-09-04 6:10

>>1
10/10 Will rage again.

Name: Anonymous 2014-09-07 2:04

ok now I'm fuqqin angered

Name: Anonymous 2014-09-07 22:56

>>2
Machines are semi-autonomous extensions of intelligent agents, such as humans.

Many humans are also extensions of other intelligent humans, controlled via money, extortion, or other vice.

Name: Anonymous 2014-09-07 22:59

>>6
lol, you're fucking retarded

Name: Anonymous 2014-09-08 17:32

Two reason to why I see Javascript as a very Lispy language is
1) Javascript was in fact designed by one of the creators of Scheme
2) It is trivial to compile Scheme to Javascript; almost every construct in Scheme can be mapped one-to-one to a construct in Javascript.

Name: Anonymous 2014-09-08 17:41

>>8
IHBT

Name: Anonymous 2014-09-08 17:52

javashit and scheme are actually pretty similar... javascript's syntax, some minor problems that are almost fixed in the last version of ecmascript, and its interaction with the DOM are the real problem

Name: Anonymous 2014-09-08 17:56

>>10
http://progrider.org/prog/read/1410108663/5
PRETTY SIMILAR

Name: Anonymous 2014-09-08 19:36

>>1

Not only is it a stupid language but its deficiencies are so severe and obvious that anyone who doesn't see them should be kept far far away from software development.

I tend to agree. How does a development team like the one that made the Lisp Platform know so little about production code practices? Any solution that isn't agile, self-documenting and scalable like the Lisp Platform shouldn't be deployed in any integrated enterprise environment. That's just common sense.

lisp really is a stupid language

1 Name: Haxxus the Trolled 2014-09-04 3:15

2 Name: Anonymous 2014-09-04 3:17

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12 Name: Anonymous 2014-09-08 19:36