On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 06:33:40PM -0800, SJS wrote: > > Lisp/Scheme just seems like fun. I'm not sure why Lisp encourages > > this attitude you're talking about. Why didn't C or Fortran or C++ > > create the same attitude? > > C and Fortran were all about Getting Work Done, not standing back and > admiring the wonders of what had been wrought... :)
I wonder if it has to do with the difficulty of the field. As a physicist, the most macho fields include general relativity and quantum mechanics. I suppose people in those subfields are more prone to big egos. Lisp to me is like the general relativity of programming languages. You need to know what you are doing to wield it effectively unlike Python. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
