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Marvin Minsky - The Beauty of the Lisp Language

211 2020-10-13 03:50

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TempleOS demonstates that C paradigm is closer to reality of computing - that C(and ALGOL-type languages in general) are both intuitive and easily translates to low-level OS layer.
Thousands of hobby OSes are created with C or its various offshoots, programmers.
Now what is the state of LISP-based computing?
https://linuxfinances.info/info/lisposes.html
Not even fanatic LITHPers use these OSes. No one develops software for them. The list resembles a museum of curiosities that somehow can't compete with C-based systems, despite being 'superior' and LISP giving you x100 the productivity of Blub programmers.
Blub somehow out-computes these superior LISP systems and their potential LISP programmers prefer inferior Blub systems.

217 2020-10-13 06:22

Why LITHPers argue about how superior is LISP to Blub, without contributing to actual LISP-based OS projects?
Isn't it much easier to brag about superiority without relying on C-based system?
https://github.com/ghosthamlet/awesome-lisp-machine#lisp-operating-system
Mezzano - 17 contributors
ChrysaLisp - 8 contributors
https://github.com/whily/yalo - 1 contributor
flisp -1 contributors.

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