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by rjyoungling 2025 days ago
I often hear engineers rave about lisp. Is that really such a superior language?
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No, its not, but it is a fun language. I'd take a lisp job over anything if i found one. Not because it is the best language (it is not the best at anything, except maybe prototyping), but because it is fun, and interesting to work with it.
Sounds fun yeah.. Really should start to learn to program. Got a background in pure math but for some illogical reason I feel kind of intimidated by programming.
Superior at what?

Meta-programming? Yes. Object-oriented programming? Meh. CLOS is nice, but not vastly superior to anything else. Something else? Depends on what that something is.

It's interesting.. all these different languages. Wonder if at some point in the future, you'd just have 1 language. (not an engineer so idk if that's possible/practical)