Lisp is dead because it's easy to write and hard to read. Readability is overwhelmingly the most important property of programming languages. I think it's a solved problem though, so I actually think Lisp is the future of programming. (Parenthesized prefix notation, more specifically.) Fun fact: Lisp's readability problem has nothing to do with parentheses!
Lisp is dead because it's easy to write and hard to read. Readability is overwhelmingly the most important property of programming languages. I think it's a solved problem though, so I actually think Lisp is the future of programming. (Parenthesized prefix notation, more specifically.) Fun fact: Lisp's readability problem has nothing to do with parentheses!