/prog/ - Riddle Me This (Lisp Edition)

Name: Sphinx 2019-05-20 12:39

If Lisp is great why are its users unhappy?

Name: Anonymous 2019-05-20 16:35

no gf

Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 0:16

no gf

Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 1:40

without a lover (female)

Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 1:43

>>1
Garbage collection overhead?
Lack of recent libraries/bindings?
Lack of types(and resulting mediocre performance levels)?
>>2-4 How does LISP as opposed to say JavaScript would bear any influence on your problem?

Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 5:14

>>5
Javashit developers make CRUD web apps for money aka they have a life

Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 6:24

>>6
Didn't Paul "Blub-destroyer" Graham got rich through LISP web apps? I believe it was called viaweb

Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 6:26

>>7
It is called H***er News/The Y Combinator, and it made him famous among neckbeards with strong and irrelevant opinions, not rich.

Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 6:35

Paul Graham invented anaphoric macros.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro

Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 8:09

Are lispers lispers because they're unhappy?
Are lispers unhappy because they're lispers?

Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 8:11

lispers are only happy when they can achieve dubs

Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 16:00

scheduled reminder that LISP sucks

Name: Anonymous 2019-06-18 16:38

>>1
>>2

Lies, Common Lisp has generic functions.

Name: Anonymous 2019-06-18 17:25

>>13
Unlike Go.

Riddle Me This (Lisp Edition)

1 Name: Sphinx 2019-05-20 12:39

2 Name: Anonymous 2019-05-20 16:35

3 Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 0:16

4 Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 1:40

5 Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 1:43

6 Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 5:14

7 Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 6:24

8 Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 6:26

9 Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 6:35

10 Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 8:09

11 Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 8:11

12 Name: Anonymous 2019-05-21 16:00

13 Name: Anonymous 2019-06-18 16:38

14 Name: Anonymous 2019-06-18 17:25