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A road to Lisp: Why Lisp (scotto.me)
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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This doesn't explain why you'd want to use Lisp at all really, and it pretty much ignores the many disadvantages.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    If you are into exploring programming languages or writing interpreters, lisp is quite an interesting language. I can also see it working quite well if you need to embed a small scripting language somewhere, because it's so minimal and easy to pick up, but also very powerful if you go into the metaprogramming side of it.

    I don't see many reasons to use it for anything else though.

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    • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Because you hate yourself?

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    I will always remember the CS class I took that was taught in Lisp (it was the only class in that program that used Lisp).

    It convinced me I did not want to do software engineering for my career.

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    • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    Thank you for sharing, it was an interesting read.

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