Lisp Popularity Debate

You use all kinds of generalizing faulty logic. This won't get you very far.> Nope, it's actually what you said, point for point in the same order.I told you what I said.>1. "At reddit were not really Lisp experts" - this implies that they would have been successful if they were Lisp experts. Not needing to be an expert in a language to be productive is a powerful reason to use something that's not a Lisp.'this implies' nothing. Speak about yo

"The curse of Lisp" is a well known phrase that's been used in hundreds of essays:https://www.google.com/search?q=the+curse+of+lisp&oq=the+cur...There has been much debate about why Lisp has not taken over the world of computing. It was invented in 1958, it was taught in

"People haven't [adopted LISPy languages] because real [LISPy languages] have never been tried"

Nope, it's actually what you said, point for point in the same order.1. "At reddit were not really Lisp experts" - this implies that they would have been successful if they were Lisp experts. Not needing to be an expert in a language to be productive is a powerful reason to use something that's not a Lisp.2. "They wrote not more than a sketch of the site in Lisp and at the first sight of problems they switched to a language/implementation they were more famili

Could be selection bias. People who use lisp today are people who refused to move on over the past decades when almost everyone moved on.

Hmm... "Why don't more people use XXXX" type of posts seem like an invitation to argument and drama. But I'm a Lisp fan, so I can't ignore this opportunity for people to down-vote me because I don't make a full-throated endorsement of their favourite language. I'm also somewhat tired of reddit, so I'm responding here.a. Lisp isn't a single language, but a family of languages. There's Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure and even Lisp Flavoured Erla

I often hear engineers rave about lisp. Is that really such a superior language?

Lisp is more like an idea (or set of ideas) rather than a concrete tool for specific tasks, and it's an absolutely wonderful, eye-opening idea. Unfortunately, as often happens, good ideas groundlessly get ignored. Concepts like formal methods, reactive programming, and immutable data structures also largely go unnoticed, despite being immensely useful for certain types of problems. Unlike those, the basic ideas behind Lisp are far simpler to grasp and probably have far more tangible benefit

It's due to the fact that Lisp is ahead of its time :-)

What drives people to attempt to persuade others that Lisp is not practical?