Comment by duesabati
2 days ago
No I wasn't, it was a really interesting read thank you, but that blog post seem to me like an argument for me not the OP point of view, because if you refuse to understand how things work by blindly delegating to libraries and frameworks (like RoR) you become a "Blub" programmer that thinks in the way of constructs and decisions that the library/framework authors made.
It does directly address your claim that there do not exist "more powerful languages."
Yeah I can see that, but that lisp feature is not exclusive to lisp, if you know what you want and what you are doing you can implement the very same thing in any other language, you may say it is convenient that lisp already has it, but it does not make it more powerful. I don't know list, but there will surely be something that is missing from it that another language has it, now I ask you which is more powerful? See? Everything is relative to what you want to do. The very author of the blog you shared is falling in the same set of programmers he wants to criticize because now he thinks in lisp macro and the very moment he cannot use lisp, he will feel lost but has he stopped and thought that what he needed was something to manipulate code at compile time he could have used any language