On Jul 2, 8:33 pm, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:21 PM, James Keats <james.w.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And once you encounter the > > reality and frustration infamously characterized by likening the > > managing of lispers to the herding of cats then you begin to admire > > languages like python and java and see what they got right in imposing > > restrictions. > > I've yet to see any evidence anecdotal or otherwise that managing a team of > good Lisp programmers is any more difficult than managing good programmers > in any other language. Links? >
Sure, "good lisp programmers", I have no argument against that, the key operative word here being *good*; where do you find those in large enough numbers to fill industry positions? I would also like to be specific about what "good" would entail: it has to entail some knowledge of what would actually work in the large and be maintainable, and a personal maturity that would prevent them from becoming too excited and overly adventurous. Unfortunately the industry is not made of "good lisp programmers". > > A very recent quote by Abelson is relevant: > > "One of the things I’m learning here (Google) is the experience of > > working on these enormous programs. I just never experienced that > > before. Previously a large program to me was a hundred pages or > > something. Now that’s a tiny, little thing." > > One of the most popular text editors to this day is Emacs. It's near 3 > million lines of Lisp. > > David Versus the countless libraries and apps of Java and python? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
