On 2014-03-05, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:48:40 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa > <ma...@pacujo.net> declaimed the following: >>Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us>: >>> Okay, that looks totally cool. Maybe I'll finally get a >>> handle on LISP! :) >> >> Lisp is conceptually simpler than Python, but awe-inspiring. >> One day, it will overtake Python, I believe. >> > > It's already had 54 years to become a major language... > > Instead it has schismed into Common Lisp and Scheme (and a few > other dialects) > > Granted, my experience was toying with /cassette-based/ > SuperSoft LISP on a TRS-80 Model III
Personally, I think it hasn't taken off because special forms are harder to remember than syntax. And there are, like, *way* more than mammals needs. And then the coolest feature of the language, macros, is designed to let you, gulp, add more. Well, that or lisp's designers severely underestimated how much we like to use our programming languages as non-RPN calculators. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
