Why don't people like lisp?

[Pascal Costanza]

Ville Vainio wrote:

> Lisp might have a good future ahead of it if it was only competing
> againt C++, Java and others. Unfortunately for Lisp, other dynamic
> languages exist at the moment, and they yield greater
> productivity.

This is true for the things that are currently en vogue.

> Most bosses are more impressed with getting stuff done
> fast than getting it done slowly, using gimmicks that would have given
> you an A+ if it was a CS research project.

I have implemented an AOP extension for Lisp that took about a weekend 
to implement. The implementation is one page of Lisp code and is rather 
efficient (wrt usability and performance) because of macros.

I have heard rumors that the development of an AOP extension for Python 
would take considerably longer.


Pascal

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