>>2 Every new language is a "worse is better" bastardization of Algol-68.
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Anonymous2015-06-09 8:38
>>13 What should I do with my copy of the illuminatus trilogy? Should I sacrifice it by fire, leave it somewhere for some random person to pick up, or simply throw it in the bin?
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Anonymous2015-06-09 8:45
I'd give it to timothy leary but apparently he died from an LSD OVERDOSE
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Anonymous2015-06-09 9:20
The illuminati rejected my application ;_;
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Anonymous2015-06-09 10:06
>>17 yeah they're all like "come back when you have a stupid university degree"
The Real Lisp Curse is performance. If it was winning benchmarks its ugly syntax would be forgiven. But with lackluster performance and ugly syntax it won't be. It doesn't have a niche like JavaScript where its dominant and it doesn't appeal to newbie programmers like Python or Ruby. And to top it off many languages have absorbed the "killer features" of Lisp over the years, so the advantage of Lisp is shrinking every day.
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Anonymous2015-06-10 19:35
>>14 Dependently-typed, total languages aren't. Algol never had full dependent types or totality proofs.
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Anonymous2015-06-10 19:38
>>24 C++ has lots of ([{}]); just like C, but you don't call it C, do you?
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Anonymous2015-06-11 3:38
>>27 SBCL is surprisingly fast once it's done loading and your code is compiled.