>>3 It's just entertainment. Try to convert one word to another using one letter substitutions.
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Anonymous2014-09-13 1:15
Lisp is a programmable programming language. -- John Foderaro, CACM, September 1991
One can even conjecture that Lisp owes its survival specifically to the fact that its programs are lists, which everyone, including me, has regarded as a disadvantage. -- John McCarthy, Early History of Lisp
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material. -- Alan Kay
>>9 I hate all programming languages because they are shit. Each and every one has unavoidable flaws. What I would love is an environment with several layers, each one in a different language, yet all these languages must be implemented via one powerful metaprogramming toolkit that allows to create and inspect code at every level and see how it gets transformed into the eventual lowest-level representation. Now, it would be obvious to say that this meta-programming toolkit is Lisp but the real-world Lisp does not live up to my expectations as each Lisp has its flaws (forced GC, lack of full static typing with disjoint types, etc) and is not flexible enough to become the universal building material.
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Anonymous2014-09-13 9:17
Language GitHub projects JavaScript 885,467 Java 644,711 Ruby 622,088 Python 432,533 PHP 420,913 C 218,287 Clojure 21,108 Common Lisp 6883 Scheme 5128 Racket 2727
Mwahaha, the webmonkey Javashit pseudoLisp is already more popular than CL and Scheme put together.
>>12 Ruby, Python, PHP... see a trend? ShitHub is largely comprised of "web developer" idiots.
(Java is because of the "enterprise best practice" crap that means every little goddamn piece of functionality turns into its own project bloated with a zillion classes.)