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by pedalpete 5398 days ago
Same, though I wonder if his thoughts on languages has changed much, if at all.

I was looking at learning a new language and considered Lisp, but decided on rails because it seems to be the most common language for web-apps these days, and therefore it should be easier to find good Rails developers than Lisp developers.

I'm curious if PG feels the same way about using Lisp/Arc for business reasons vs. Lisp for technical reasons.

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I wonder this as well. Experimentally speaking, Lisp does not appear to have been a great success. I still prefer it, but that appears to be a perennially minority viewpoint, not necessarily one always just on the cusp of winning.