Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The myth of the Lisp genius — The Endeavour

The myth of the Lisp genius — The Endeavour: "Another possibility is that super-programmers are attracted to Lisp. That’s the position taken in The Bipolar Lisp Programmer. In that case, lesser programmers turning to Lisp in hopes of becoming super productive may be  engaging in a bit of cargo cult thinking.

I find the latter more plausible, that exceptional programmers are often attracted to Lisp. It may be that Lisp helps very talented programmers accomplish more. Lisp imposes almost no structure, and that could be attractive to highly creative people. More typical programmers might benefit from languages that provide more structure."