Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

Have you ever wondered how it could be that Lisp is so powerful, and yet C is so much more successful and ubiquitous? How is it that so many brilliant coders know Lisp, and yet we so rarely hear from any of them other than Paul Graham? This is a great article that tries to explain it: the bipolar Lisp programmer.

2 comments:

Manuel said...

If the author of this essay was going to do something so rude as to reach inside my head, you would think he would have the decency to ask me for permission first.

Shannon -jj Behrens said...

hahaha