Delete comment from: Ken Shirriff's blog
I used to be quite interested in arc and lisp, but recently I've been quite turned off by the attitudes of some in the lisp community. The last few responses to this post seem quite defensive ("poor pretenders to the throne", "crappy obsolete implementations"??) and even nasty. Seriously, I think that people have to accept that Lisp does have a problem. Its library system is antiquated, limited, and quite difficult to work with (contrast asdf to import in python). Moreover, it isn't as though Lisp is the end-all-do-all of languages: languages like Haskell have numerous features that Lisp just doesn't. In the end, Lisp is just another language.
May 21, 2008, 9:09:00 PM