OFF-TOPIC:: Why Lisp is not my favorite programming language

[Matthias Felleisen]

nobody wrote:

> EPILOGUE:
> 
> I do not hate Lisp, and I think it was a fine tool decades
> ago, and I am not going to say "Lisp sucks". However, now
> that we have superior languages for coding close to the
> iron, high-performance computing, number crunching,
> algorithms, scripting and gluing components together, Lisp
> should be finally retired.

somebody answers:

Lisp has been declared dead for the past N years. Unlike Algol, Simula 67, PL/I, 
Pascal, ... and many more languages that came and went, it is still alife and 
kicking. It will be alive and fun to program in for many years to come, because 
it still has many advantages over C#, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, and many other 
languages that *will* come and go before Lisp is truly retired.

Long live Scheme

And now it's time to go back and strengthen Scheme even more.

-- Matthias Felleisen, PLT