On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 20:20:28 UTC, so wrote:
On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 17:58:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Now try doing this in C++. It is in all likelihood plain
impossible, or
so extremely painful that it's not worth the suffering to
implement.
T
Having read some Lisp recently, i was so lucky it was not my
first language.
It would have been a very frustrating experience having to
adopt other languages, required to write code in them. I don't
have experience on it and don't know how it scales with bigger
projects but as someone who sees the importance of
metaprogramming in D/C++, it is disturbing when you find out it
was a 50 years old concept.
Now imagine those that have experimented how powerful Lisp and
Smalltalk based OS were.
It is so sad to see IDE makers still trying to replicate the
experience from those environments.
--
Paulo
