I always thought that the "answer" to programming would be that one day everyone would use Lisp and with awesome tooling and libraries things would be wonderful. In fact, my plan for retirement was to build high-quality libraries for a Lisp language to accelerate this process.
Does the rise of AI bring an end to this dream? Is that, once again, we have solved the problem by adding more cruft? Rather than a superintelligent AI writing in the best programming language available, we're going to just spam lots of Python code until it works?
Does this matter? I don't know, I just wanted a world of elegance.
had become a mainstream Mac product rather than being co-opted for NeXT and use w/ Objective-C.
LISP clicked with me (when taking a comparative language class in college I was the only one who managed to do all of the LISP homework) and learning it was a lot of help in using TeX.
I just wish that there was:
- a nice native or cross-platform GUI toolkit for it which was opensource
- an easy way to distribute projects as stand-alone compiled code
Get Quicklisp and after that, Ultralisp because the last CLX library it's much faster even on shitty computers las my n270 netbook. Under ECL it almost ran without lag (just a slight one), and with SBCL
it was almost as fast as Tk under TCL.
Languages are never the answer. Lisp isn't superior to Visual Basic. They are both Turing complete. Humans can express good ideas in each. It's better to think of languages as tools. An impact drill is not superior to a simple rotary drill. You will have better luck building a deck with an impact drill, but both will do the job.
I always thought that the "answer" to programming would be that one day everyone would use Lisp and with awesome tooling and libraries things would be wonderful. In fact, my plan for retirement was to build high-quality libraries for a Lisp language to accelerate this process.
Does the rise of AI bring an end to this dream? Is that, once again, we have solved the problem by adding more cruft? Rather than a superintelligent AI writing in the best programming language available, we're going to just spam lots of Python code until it works?
Does this matter? I don't know, I just wanted a world of elegance.