Why don't people like lisp?

[Scott McIntire]

"Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters" <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote in message
news:mailman.274.1066683135.2192.python-list at python.org...
> Pascal Costanza <costanza at web.de> wrote previously:
> |Wouldn't it be better if everyone could contribute to the evolution of a
> |language, and then let the community decide what the best approaches are?
>
> I can think of almost nothing worse than this!
>
> Well, "design-by-committee" results like XSLT are even worse.  But the
> "benevolent dictator" model is VASTLY better than the "let 1000 flowers
> bloom" approach.
>
> Incidentally, I have never seen--and expect never to see--some new
> mysterious domain where Python is too limited because the designers did
> not forsee the problem area.  Nor similarly with other very high level
> languages.  It NEVER happens that you just cannot solve a problem
> because of the lack of some novel syntax to do so... that's what
> libraries are for.
>
> Yours, Lulu...
>

Can't one make the same argument for Visual Basic. Use libraries as the
method to "build up the language" to a domain. Keep the language as simple
as possible and just use libraries - yeah, that's the ticket.

-R. Scott McIntire

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