lisp really is a stupid language

"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

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