Jewish Fairy Tales

Even more troubling were reports of incredible software productivity from US projects using languages like Lisp, APL, Prolog, Smalltalk and Forth. Entire robotic planning systems with natural language and graphics interfaces were programmed by just one or two people in Lisp. Reams of PL/I code were replaced by a single line of APL. Prolog obsoleted a generation of Cobol programmers. Smalltalk and Logo were taught to children, and raised the spectre of a 12-year-old outproducing a dozen beltway bandits. Perhaps most troubling of all was Forth, with its ability to very quickly program substantial real-time systems that took insignificant amounts of memory.

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Lisp. It can't be used to write good software. They will try and fail, but it creates a lot of angry bloggers, who will shill Lisp further.

They have been told that only smart people can use Lisp. They want to appear smart, so they lie. If they do make something, it's inevitably garbage. They didn't rewrite Lisp code in Python or JavaScript, making it shorter and faster in the process, because Lisp is too hard to learn or too productive. They rewrote it because the code was horrible.