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Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp

April 15th 2006 Posted to Lisp, Programming

Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp

Lisp is not an acceptable LISP. Not for any value of Lisp. There’s nothing magical about this, nothing partisan. If Lisp were acceptable, then we’d all be using it.

Very interesting read. As someone who’s been playing with Lisp lately, I’ve enjoyed many of its features but I’ve also identified with the confusion about which Lisp to pick and all the different implementations and CFFI and UFFI and ASDF, etc, etc. Have you seen the list of prerequisites to go through the UnCommon Web Framework tutorial?

It seems to me that Python and Ruby have most of the power of Lisp, but then they have the advantage of a canonical implementation and tons of libraries to let you do interesting things right away.