* Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> [2024-08-05 23:04]: > To understand the opposite point of view, read one of Paul Graham's > essays at https://paulgraham.com/icad.html, where he describes 9 > novelties introduced by Lisp into programming in 1958, and how most, but > not all, of these have since been adopted by lesser languages.
I have read it, of course articles by Graham are very insightful. > My own view is that Lisp indeed is one of the top languages, but that > Common Lisp is too big, and thus too difficult, to learn for most > programmers. My personal view on Common Lisp at the time when I was learning it was that it was childish simple as compared to previous programming languages I knew. I even got impression that people who loved Guile, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp are bragging over the childish easy language. Learning was not hard, it was pleasure, and I was feeling like coming back home. Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns ✡️🛡️ Proudly standing with Israel, a nation rooted in history and culture. Let's condemn hatred and promote understanding. In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
