After all these years I am still wondering how people like complicated sintaxes full of special forms more than the simplicity of lisp. After all, the parentheses and the prefix notation do not look so terrible to me, especially considering that you gain a lot in clarity and simplicity of the language. Probably is the same reason that pushes people to create yet another programming language every now and then xD.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 21:03 pd <eukel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 5:00 PM Danilo Kordic <danilo.kor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 'float' could be implemented as a lib. >> > > yes, but the point here it is not at core and even having a float lib or > whatever science lib, python is plenty of them and a nicer syntax > > it's not about me neither talking about (pico)lisp features and better > syntax, I'm yet convinced 'cause I'm a schemer thus a lisper and I'm here > in that list after all > But most people don't think so and no matter how better and nicer I find > the lisp syntax, the world thinks the opposite ;-) > > maybe you can find a killer app or even a killer science app leting > picolisp shine but as soon as people has to program in picolisp (I mean > scripting) they will feel uncofortable, they will always prefer R or > python, just for syntax, not talking about huge amount of libraries and > community support, developers should enjoy (pico)lisp facilities to > develop and organice knowledge but as soon as had practical issue the lack > of specialized libraries will make them comply thinking in wide spread > python or ruby (just talking dynamic 'script' languages only)... > > It's not a problem of picolisp only, it's common to all lisp dialects and > even cool minor languages... This is the reason for using lua for scripting > rather than picolisp, guile or even tcl > Also this is the problem for all lisp about their use in real apps, I see > this in common lisp, in scheme, ... The only lisp-like with hype and > relative wide use is clojure and one key reason is libraries (achieved by > jvm side) > > And this is how it's gonna be... we live in the dictatorship of C-like > syntax world! ;-) > > (damnification is not only in lisp world, same happen to smalltalk and > derivatives, forth-like derivatives and so on) > >
