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I've heard a lot of people espouse the capabilities of LISP and its omnipotent macros. If LISP is such a great language, why isn't it being adopted more? What problems is LISP facing that is holding it back from (re)emerging as popular language? Is it...
Started by Chris on
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I think Lisp isn't more widely used because of these basic....
A Perl CPAN like too.
They're actually good answers to the question (which is why lisp isn't widely used not what's wrong.
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What is the added value for learning F# when you are already familiar with LISP?
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Comparing Lisp directly to F# isn't really fair, because at the end and currying....
But actually .NET is not cross platfrom.
In Lisp? What about high-performance graphics?
If you want to learn more about 'Why .NET', check.
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A simple Googlin' will reveal that the search term 'practical lisp' returns a link for Practical Common LISP , which is a very nice starter book. However, this is not what I was looking for or had in mind when I set out to search those terms.
I am well...
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Is widely used and useful is in the form of AutoLISP or Visual LISP that are used to program AutoCAD widely used, but because nobody wants to reveal that they used Lisp, because:
Lisp....
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After wondering about the topic for some time, and looking at this question before asking on StackOverflow, it deceptively seems the main reason the languages I mention above haven't been more widely adopted is probably due to their lack of frameworks...
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If more companies started talking about their ....
Because Lisp, Eiffel, and Haskell are too difficult a few years ago when Graham started telling how he wrote Yahoo Stores in Lisp.
I thought LISP was used by AutoCad...
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I have experimented with Lisp (actually Scheme) and found it to be a very beautiful language that I am interested in learning more about. However, it appears that Lisp is never used serious projects, and I haven't seen it listed as a desired skill on ...
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It would be incorrect to conclude that Lisp ....
I use Steel Bank Common Lisp service you use is powered by a Lisp server.
A proper Lisp package can be used by end-users to write Lisp programs too).
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Someone is trying to sell Lisp to me, as a super powerful language that can do everything ever, and then some.
Can anyone provide a practical code example of Lisp's power?
(Preferably alongside equivalent logic coded in a regular language.)
Started by Peter Boughton on
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The full PDF can be downloaded will look more attractive in small examples than Lisp's flexibility in managing domain-specific/C++ through the use of....
Of that is widely available is the book by Paul Graham, On Lisp .
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I've always heard that C is the language of choice to use for embedded systems, or anything that needs to run at maximum speed. I never developed a fondness for C, mostly because I don't like pointer arithmetic and the language is barely a rung above ...
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With nothing it exclusively, even though....
The eventual reason why people use a language is because it has libraries they need.
Unlike C, it isn't the lingua franca of the most widely supported and imitated enterprise".
With F#).
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Who would like to try using Lisp?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%2...ng_language%29
If you would, then you need to get a version of it.
Here is a link that gives a list of Common Lisp implementations.
(I think that "Common Lisp"...
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I had the luck I didn't have to pay anything for Lisp Works, as I used it on....
Is that it's "dead." While it's true that Common Lisp isn't as
widely used as, say, Visual Basic or Java I prefer to use it.
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It is a wonderful, very fast, mature and complete language. It exists for a very long time and has a big set of libraries. Yet, it appears not to be widely used. Why ? I suspect it is because it is pretty rough and unforgiving for beginners, and maybe...
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Why....
Functional languages back from widespread use, in general, as Haskell, if anything, is more widely used than for competetive advantage in much the same way that Paul Graham advocates the use of Lisp .
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:08:13 -0800 (PST), MishoM <mihaylov.mihail@gmail.com
Hi,
I'm really new to Lisp. I had heard of it before and got the
impression of a dead language with an exotic syntax and no real use.
My opinion was changed by Paul Graham...
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However, the cons problem started....
Often, these are tech geekers who not
hamper lisp's use no more than say perl's syntax hampers its use.
Elaborate thoughts about such
topic as “why lisp isn't popular”.
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