A road to Lisp: Why Lisp (scotto.me)
from cm0002@libretechni.ca to programming@programming.dev on 10 Jul 01:18
https://libretechni.ca/post/1809419

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atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 10 Jul 05:03 next collapse

Because you hate yourself?

SuperUserDO@piefed.ca on 10 Jul 05:27 next collapse

I will always remember the CS class I took that was taught in Lisp (it was the only class in that program that used Lisp).

It convinced me I did not want to do software engineering for my career.

Staff@piefed.world on 10 Jul 10:28 collapse

I too still remember a Lisp based course class and I was like wtf is this. I think it was an AI class way way before it’s popularity of nowadays.

littleomid@feddit.org on 10 Jul 07:32 collapse

Lisps are elegant and one of my favorite languages to hack with.

NanoooK@sh.itjust.works on 10 Jul 05:51 next collapse

Thank you for sharing, it was an interesting read.

FizzyOrange@programming.dev on 10 Jul 06:31 collapse

This doesn’t explain why you’d want to use Lisp at all really, and it pretty much ignores the many disadvantages.

tetrislife@leminal.space on 10 Jul 10:23 collapse

I have come to think that Lisps are meta-progranming-only languages.