On 08/04/15 00:18, John Cowan wrote:
Felix Winkelmann scripsit:
That there are so many implementors in the Lisp and Scheme community
probably makes this irrational emphasis on (execution-time)
performance so apparent in these groups. Or it's the remains of the
trauma of the AI-Winter, I don't know (and I don't care anymore.)
I believe it's older than that. There was a steady drumbeat of
"Lisp is too slow to be usable" practically from the 1950s onward,
and you can still find it in certain ignorant quarters. As a result,
the Lisp/Scheme community acts like the traumatized victim of a bully.
There are certain other language communities that do the same things
or the same reasons.
Speaking of #scheme some years ago: as soon as I saw Felix's complaint
about the obsession on performance, I recalled you expressing this exact
point, posed in the form of a riddle as to what made one group of
languages different from the other :-)
(which was a bit tricksy, come to think of it... one doesn't normally
think of a property of the community being a property of the language...)
These days, though, aren't the complaints more along the lines of 'it's
old', 'I hate parentheses' (read: 'I refuse to learn anything without a
C-like syntax') and 'what's the point? it has no commercial value.'?
-arc.
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