[HN Gopher] Land of Lisp (2010) ___________________________________________________________________ Land of Lisp (2010) Author : rg111 Score : 62 points Date : 2022-01-08 19:50 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (landoflisp.com) (TXT) w3m dump (landoflisp.com) | behnamoh wrote: | Somehow lisp reminds me of Android and Linux. Too much | flexibility and openness makes for a fractioned ecosystem that is | hard to adopt by the masses. | taeric wrote: | Agreed with the sibling that this is an odd take. | | As I often point out, though; I don't think we have any real | insights as to what makes something that will be adopted by the | masses. Outside of throwing effort at it. | | Too many of us in the technical space get caught on the idea of | throwing that effort at the solution and the problem. You can | also throw effort at the actual adoption by the masses. That | is, market outreach and general sales. | GavinMcG wrote: | This is a bizarre take. Android is the most-adopted mobile OS | in the world. | [deleted] | FullyFunctional wrote: | Funny, but the premise is insane: that Lisp is ful of things that | are done better elsewhere and that Lisp is the weapon against | bugs. I worked professionally in Lisp (Scheme) and this is 100% | false. In my experience dynamically typed languages (incl. Lisp, | Python, and Smalltalk) will absolutely be more bug prone than a | good typed language (like Haskell or Rust) on non-trivial | programs. | nu11ptr wrote: | I've always wanted to try Lisp but the fact that it is | dynamically typed has always scared me away (and my experience | with dynamically typed languages is the same - they are bug | magnets). Rust is my go to and I don't think that will change | any time soon. | tosh wrote: | Simple but refined, guaranteed to blow your mind! | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc | parentheses wrote: | just wow! great comic | civilized wrote: | What was the point of that comic? That Lisp has no bugs? | lbj wrote: | I never understood why that video didn't make it onto MTV. | nu11ptr wrote: | Ha - that neat little music video is good marketing. I'm half | tempted to try the book based on that. The only thing really | stopping me is that I hate dynamically typed languages, but still | I wonder if I shouldn't try Lisp just to "complete my education". | dang wrote: | Some past related threads: | | _Land of Lisp (2010)_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19677292 - April 2019 (80 | comments) | | _The Land of Lisp_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15417735 - Oct 2017 (135 | comments) | | _How Lisp is Going to Save the World_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5030803 - Jan 2013 (229 | comments) | | _Land of Lisp_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481456 - | Jan 2012 (7 comments) | | _Land of Lisp_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3013673 - | Sept 2011 (6 comments) | | _Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video._ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836935 - Oct 2010 (108 | comments) | podiki wrote: | It is a fun book to get started with (Common) Lisp! We need more | fun, but instructive, books like this. | ojl wrote: | Yes, books introducing languages by implementing fun | applications, like games in this case, usually helps me keep | motivation and interest longer than other kinds of | "Introduction to .." books. | ignoreusernames wrote: | Lisp is awesome, but I wish more places used regional pricing for | online purchases. It's kinda crazy paying 40 dollars for an ebook | since it's almost 1/5 of our minimum monthly wage (Brazil) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-08 23:00 UTC)