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Worse is Better by Richard P. Gabriel

Future of Coding

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Why Is LISP Losing?

This is really an explanation of like why is LISP not the most popular language because it's clearly the right thing. People who adopt software actually want to have a Outside experience or they're willing to tolerate a experience if it means that the thing performs better. The programmer is conditioned to sacrifice some safety convenience and hassle to get good performance and modest resource use.

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