On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 12:50:01PM +0200, Lassi Kortela wrote:
The bright side is that creativity has never been our problem; many communities cannot say the same. Predictable and well-organized communities look good in the short term, but long term (e.g. 50-year timespan), the creative communities are going to be the ones that stay relevant.
The greatest strength of Lisp and its derivatives is that among programming languges, it is the closest to a natural language, in that it is developed and changed by users, by the patterns of usage they come up with.
This is also its greatest weakness.
-- hendrik