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LISP WINS AGAIN

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-18 5:50

John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket” (twitter.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220468

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-18 6:05

He'll return to Sepples after he finds Racket as unoptimized, unscalable toy language. Sepples will have the last laugh.
Just check his server after a few months.

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-18 6:09

>>2
It's saddening that he didn't choose Common Lisp instead.

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-18 6:51

next tweet: Kool-aid bitter aftertaste:
Fighting down my urge for a terse binary encoding and embracing s-expressions for network transport is helping a lot with development.
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/577878167542734848

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-18 8:45

He could have gotten much better performance if he'd made use of http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-18 11:53

Lisp now used by Facebook.

Name: /twatter via hackerjews/ 2015-03-18 12:57

/twatter via hackerjews/

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-19 7:41

That scheming bastard

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-19 10:43

check 'em

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-22 21:28

It needs to be said very firmly that LISP is not a functional language at all. My suspicion is that the success of Lisp set back the development of a properly functional style of programming by at least ten years.

-- David Turner

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-22 23:00

>>12

That's right. It isn't. Thankfully. And it's not news either. I mean Common Lisp has tagbody and go.

Functional programming is completely retarded for a huge number of software problems (but also very nice for a smaller number of problems).

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-23 18:08

>>13
And for that smaller number of problems, it's doable in a non-functional language. Sure, it requires the programmer to not be an inbred dimwit, but that is a requirement no language can assuage.

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-23 19:21

John Carmack is a smug LISP weenie.

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-23 19:51

>>13
Could you name at least a couple of software problems for which functional programming is "retarded", please?

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-23 22:08

>>16
Image processing. A GUI. No, wait. No need to be that complex. A FILO queue. Have you read Chris Okasaki's Purely functional data structures? It's a very nice intellectual exercise in how to solve easy problems in the least convoluted way possible when you have some constraints (in this case, only functional programming allowed).

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-24 6:47

not using R7RS

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-24 7:28

>>18
Whom are you quoting?

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-24 11:28

>>18
I think you mean
`>not using R7RS
Damn newfags

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-25 9:12

fibs get

Name: Anonymous 2015-03-25 9:14

check 'em
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