[gambit-list] Contributing to Gambit

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Thu Jan 28 17:02:08 EST 2021


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




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