Ooooh you are soooo evil Pascal :) :) :) On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 11:29 AM Pascal Bourguignon <p...@informatimago.com> wrote:
> Le 07/02/2021 à 10:10, Marco Antoniotti a écrit : > > ... and I can always CHANGE-CLASS, can't I? > > Of course. There are a lot of features of CL that renders most of the > software engineering fad entirely useless or obvious. > > This is part of the reasons why lisp is not more popular: there's no PhD > to work on when you work with lisp, since the problems they solve don't > occur or are solved trivially in lisp; there's no software engineering > technique to be developed and evangelized (with books or expensive > conferences) when you work with lisp because there are no deficiencies > so dire in the language to require them; there's no need for > sophisticated tools and IDE to be developped and sold to lisp > programmers, since the syntax is so trivial just a few hacks in emacs > are enough for 99% of the needs. > > -- > __Pascal Bourguignon__ > > -- Marco Antoniotti, Associate Professor tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01 DISCo, Università Milano Bicocca U14 2043 http://bimib.disco.unimib.it Viale Sarca 336 I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY
