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by lycopodiopsida 883 days ago
I've always said half-joking, that CL users write more text praising it than actual code in CL. This thread is a fine example, but still fun to read.

But back to your examples - I feel that a lot of ideas CL is built on just aged poorly, I guess? No way I want to see some magical binary where some guru adjusted a parameter in the image or the ugly head of monkeypatching or macros all over the place in production code. CL serves the myth of lonely hacker where the rest of the world has accepted the fact that writing software is mostly a social activity and that code is as much for other people as for the machine.
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lispm 883 days ago
> I feel that a lot of ideas CL is built on just aged poorly, I guess?

byte-code enhancement in Java?

You'll find dynamic features in a bunch of other languages, too. R, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, ...

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rokkitmensch 882 days ago
eyyy you should see the paens I've written to lovers past ;)

Note that I'm not strongly advocating anyone ship CL in hot loops in prod, merely that there are wonders in there worth examining, as perhaps the surviving mainstream descendant implementations missed a nuance or three.

It's really not a great fit for middle-of-the-road software teams with quotidien concerns.

It does have plenty of great food for thought for the thinking programmer.

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