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Ramin Honary | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 My latest blog post: How is Lisp Useful
This article actually started as a post on Lemmy, but it got to be so long that I turned it into a proper blog post.
I also include ideas from a post I made here on Mastodon earlier.
Enjoy! #Lisp #CommonLisp #ECL#Scheme #GuileScheme #Emacs #EmacsLisp #Programming #Python #cplusplus #FunctionalProgramming
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76aedb67 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a272784d 
but what if one lisp's main advantages is that it has so far proved nearly useless to most capitalists?
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Ramin Honary | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @91b15004 there does seem to be a correlation between not having wealth and using Lisp. If there were causation, that is if we knew the reason for why Lisp was mostly useless to capitalists, I'd say it would be extremely useful and instructive to replicate that advantage across a wider variety of technologies, especially in things like modern AI, which ironically Lisp was originally one of the niche use cases of the Lisp language.