It seems better than bloated c. Where did we go wrong?
Redpill me on lisp
Sebastian Rogers
Landon Gray
Lisp = Autism, the programming language
It's slow and ugly but autists like it because of various memes
Evan Bell
lisp is not a replacement for c, but it turns out that in addition to c and c++ we also need some kind of scripting langauge to write our memescripts in. C alone isn't a good enough scripting langauge.
lisp is the most namaste and redbulled scripting language thus is perfect to go alongside c.
Cooper Howard
Dis.
Turns out it’s simple to implement and has spawned a plethora of dialects to cater to your specific tastes all based around a simple idea of the first argument being the function name and the remaining things in the parens being args. Cons/Cdr is also a wonderful paradigm for processing lists of things.
Michael Long
No one actuially uses lisp for scripting except rms and his cronies. Javascript, lua, python are languages often used for scripting in real world.
Josiah Bennett
Common Lisp can be almost as fast as C with proper type declarations and optimizations. SBCL has gotten very good.
Besides, languages aren't "fast" or "slow" in themselves. That depends on the implementation.
"Scripting language" is a meaningless term used by autists to discredit what they don't consider "real programming".
And yes, you can build actual software with Lisp, not just mere scripts.
Benjamin Fisher
No one takes lisp seriously anymore. It was important for AI about 30 years ago but not taken seriously anymore.
Levi Peterson
How on earth is C bloated?
If anything is the most debloated language in existence.
I guess I'm just a bit hurt because this made me remember the time people laughed at me, in an interview, because i said C was my favourite language because it was so simple and straightforward.
Eli Jenkins
What did it achieve for AI? All modern NNs are written in python with backends in C.
Kevin Bailey
Lisp is the most powerful programming language.
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