On: The Lisp Curse

[protomyth]

Separating a language from the things you build in it kinda misses the point of the language. Ruby inspired / allowed Rails. Sadly, Lisp and SML haven't have powered anything of similar popularity.

[dwc → protomyth]

And I think this is what the author was saying. In Lispland you don't get something like Rails, you get a bunch of 80% solutions, all different.

[jamesbritt → protomyth]

Separating a language from the things you build in it kinda misses the point of the language.

What if the things you build in it are all largely similar, mostly small variations on a common theme?

It's the difference between "Foo is a great language", and, "Foo is a great language for building applications that do Bar."