Why don't people like lisp?

[Edi Weitz]

On 20 Oct 2003 09:01:33 +0300, Ville Vainio <ville.spammehardvainio at spamtut.fi> wrote:

> Meanwhile, people are voting with their feet: a lot (thousands?
> don't know the exact figure) of people are taught Lisp (well,
> Scheme, but anyway) at colleges/whatever every year, and they
> abandon it in a blink of an eye after the course (obviously this
> might be because the courses emphasize functional programming). Many
> even think that C++, of all things, is easier!

Yeah, sure. And 95% of all computer users use Windows so it must be
the best OS. You know the "50 million flies" saying?

Edi.


  "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish
   thing."

  (Anatol France)