They tricked low iq niggers and mental midgets to use it instead of Lisp-1s so that they would think that lisp is shit and move to unsafe and low-intelligence languages like Java, Python, and C.
Name:
Anonymous2018-01-27 3:39
>>1 You can't make a video game or a webapp or anything remotely useful in Lisp I or Lisp II so who cares?
>>3 A special game-oriented dialect of LISP. Seriously, LISPers can't find anything more recent but to proclaim some ancient crap as shining examples of LISP power.
some ancient crap as shining examples of LISP power.
Because it provided high-level capabilities on a low power PlayStation 1, competing with C on that?
Name:
Anonymous2018-01-27 7:40
>>5 It was 20 years ago. Optical disks were also o remarkably advanced storege medium then.
Name:
Anonymous2018-01-27 13:32
>>3 bullshit and World of Warcraft is written in lua
Name:
Anonymous2018-01-27 15:28
Common Lisp is actually schlock. It's this big bloated monstrosity. C++ with parens. Happens to have great compilers due to being around forever. A lot of people used it for pragmatic reasons 20 years ago, but the younger generation and even the old "hackers" universally jumped ship for other languages.
Lisp should be about being anti-syntax; enough that it'd be easy to hold the entire language spec in your working memory at once. That's usability. Stuff like CLOS is the exact opposite. I'm glad Common Lisp is dead.