Consider this: A pack of Smug Lisp Weenies. Smug Lisp Weenies nearing your Enterprise Code Factory. Trampling your abstractions and design patterns. Inserting cryptic macros in your code. And you can't do shit since they're so incomprehensible. The Weenie leader grabs your makefile and replaces it with 10 lines of lisp. The primal Lisp Weenies finally dominate your company by rewriting everything in LISP. They create barbaric memory-leaking macro-programs that laugh at Big O notation. Your entire department is replaced by a bunch of weenies. Such is the downfall of Blub.
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Anonymous2015-03-10 15:36
rewriting everything in LISP.
that's not what happens though.
lispers write something well and then redditors rewrite it in python.
One cannot build a beautiful computer system without 128GB of ram. LISP and Scheme use inelegant garbage collection which slows them down. Turning it off is a space-time tradeoff i'm willing to make. --Gerald Jay Sussman, June 2014, moments before being banned from Four Chan Technology board.