Re: Decreasing the "standard deviation" of lisp

In article <1146200929.128239.294360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Ben Prew" <ben.prew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Recently, there was an (apparently cyclic) thread on comp.lang.lisp the
other day about how lisp sucks and why new developers aren't flocking
to bask in its glory.

Why should that be the case? Why should Common Lisp suddenly
be the target for script kiddies, instead of developers?

Also, since I happen to think that lisp's concepts (macros) are some of

Actually I don't think macros are that great. They are mostly
oversold and other more useful concepts are overlooked.

I think that we (the lisp community) should imitate some functions of
the more popular languages to increase membership. As an example, I was
thinking it would be fairly easy to add things like "while", "for",
"foreach", "var", etc.

Unfortunately nothing will happens from a Usenet post.
Everything begins with working source code.

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