Re: Are we close to a Lisp boom ?



Majorinc Kazimir wrote:
I do not think so. Lisp is significantly harder to learn than,
say, Ruby or Lua, and it provides less advantages to average
programmer than ever.

To be fair, that is only half of the story. The other half is that Lisp also
fails to provide advantages for smart programmers who benefit more from
languages like Haskell, OCaml, Scala and F#.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
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