[–] PaulHoule 11mo ago ↗ See https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1186940/Lisps-Mysteriou...Also other languages have stolen most of what was unique about lisp like: the garbage collector, dynamic data structures on your fingertips, Map<String, Object>, etc. Almost all the examples in Peter Norvig's bookhttps://unglueit-files.s3.amazonaws.com/ebf/59f74a93bbc1435c...can be coded up just fine in Python. Try doing that in FORTRAN or COBOL in the 1970s in you're in the house of pain.
[–] kazinator 11mo ago ↗ [2005] actually. The submitted capture is from 2006; this earlier one doesn't cut off the last part of the text:https://web.archive.org/web/20051219170403/https://dept-info...
[–] kazinator 11mo ago ↗ Popularity is mostly a game of musical chairs where you have hundreds of contestants and just a handful of chairs.With some funky new rules: that the winners of the previous round get to dance close to the chairs, while the losers must stay behind a circle.Also, we don't remove chairs; we remove one of the prior winners to outside of the circle.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 20.6 ms ] threadAlso other languages have stolen most of what was unique about lisp like: the garbage collector, dynamic data structures on your fingertips, Map<String, Object>, etc. Almost all the examples in Peter Norvig's book
https://unglueit-files.s3.amazonaws.com/ebf/59f74a93bbc1435c...
can be coded up just fine in Python. Try doing that in FORTRAN or COBOL in the 1970s in you're in the house of pain.
https://web.archive.org/web/20051219170403/https://dept-info...
With some funky new rules: that the winners of the previous round get to dance close to the chairs, while the losers must stay behind a circle.
Also, we don't remove chairs; we remove one of the prior winners to outside of the circle.