On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:21 PM, James Keats <james.w.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> And once you encounter the
> reality and frustration infamously characterized by likening the
> managing of lispers to the herding of cats then you begin to admire
> languages like python and java and see what they got right in imposing
> restrictions.
>

I've yet to see any evidence anecdotal or otherwise that managing a team of
good Lisp programmers is any more difficult than managing good programmers
in any other language. Links?


> A very recent quote by Abelson is relevant:
> "One of the things I’m learning here (Google) is the experience of
> working on these enormous programs. I just never experienced that
> before. Previously a large program to me was a hundred pages or
> something. Now that’s a tiny, little thing."
>

One of the most popular text editors to this day is Emacs. It's near 3
million lines of Lisp.

David

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