Comment by frwrfwrfeefwf

2 days ago

cute but you don't get lisp yet.

I would be very interest in seeing how "getting lisp" enables you to write software that is more successful than the C and C++ software that runs the world. Perhaps you have written software in Lisp demonstrating this? Something you can show us?

  • The reference text on time keeping used to be implemented in Lisp.

    Alan Kay says a lot of problems with C/C++ go away when using the higher math more easily expressible in Lisp and like minded languages.

    Jürgen Schmidhuber says the problem with computers from a mathematician's point of view are the numbers.

  • Go ate a big lunch from Java, C and a bit of C++ as a systems' language, which Go was designed as "C sucessor without the C++ bullshit". Even the most modern C (Plan9/9front, not what the ANSI C comitee vomits in every iteration) it's a very different beast.

    Still, Common Lisp it's in places where trying to build such kind of software in C/C++ would be a reciper for disasters.

    https://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/index.html