Why isn't LISP more widespread?

Posted by Andrea on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Andrea
Published on 2011-03-19T22:27:12Z Indexed on 2011/03/20 0:17 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 287

Filed under:

lisp

|

usage

I am starting to learn Scheme by the SICP videos, and I would like to move to Common Lisp next.

The language seems very interesting, and most of the people writings books on it advocate that it has unequalled expressive power. CL seems to have a decent standard library.

Why is not Lisp more widespread? If it is really that powerful, people should be using it all over, but instead it is nearly impossible to find, say, Lisp job advertisements.

I hope it is not just the parenthesis, as they are not a great problem after a little while.

© Programmers or respective owner

Related posts about lisp

Why is Lisp useful?

as seen on Programmers - Search for 'Programmers'
Lisp obviously is an advantage for the AI stuff but it doesn't appear to me that Lisp is any faster than Java, C#, or even C. I am not a master of Lisp, but I find it incredibly difficult to understand the advantage one would get in writing Business Software in Lisp. Yet it is considered as a hacker's… >>> More
Why do you like Lisp ?

as seen on Programmers - Search for 'Programmers'
Why does Paul Graham advocate Lisp? Why did ITA Software choose Lisp over other High Level languages? Lisp obviously is an advantage for the AI stuff but I don't think Lisp is any faster than Java, C# or as a matter of fact faster than C. Still it is considered as a Hackers language? I am not a master… >>> More
Emacs 23.1 make error 139 in Mac OS X 10.6.3

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
When I try to compile GNU Emacs 23.1 on my machine with Mac OS X 10.6.3 I repeatedly get the following ending: Directories: /src/emacs-23.1/lisp/. /src/emacs-23.1/lisp/./calc /src/emacs-23.1/lisp/./calendar /src/emacs-23.1/lisp/./emacs-lisp /src/emacs-23.1/lisp/./emulation /src/emacs-23.1/lisp/./erc… >>> More
Why not port Linux kernel to Common Lisp?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Conventional wisdom states that OS kernels must be written in C in order to achieve the necessary levels of performance. This has been the justification for not using more expressive high level languages. However, for a few years now implementations of Common Lisp such as SBCL have proven to be… >>> More
Lisp Style question label local functions or not?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I was wondering if there is a standard practice regarding the use of labels in Lisp. I've been messing around with a Lisp implementation of the algorithm described in the first answer here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/352203/generating-permutations-lazily My current version uses labels to… >>> More

Related posts about usage

Monitor RAM usage on CentOS and restart Apache at a certain usage

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
Hi, I'm running a CentOS 5.3 server with a basic LAMP stack. I've optimized LAMP and my code to run efficiently as possible, but Apache has a memory leak somewhere that kills my server every hour or so. What is the best way to write a script that will monitor the memory usage and if it peaks over… >>> More
Monitor RAM usage on CentOS and restart Apache at a certain usage

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi, I'm running a CentOS 5.3 server with a basic LAMP stack. I've optimized LAMP and my code to run efficiently as possible, but Apache has a memory leak somewhere that kills my server every hour or so. What is the best way to write a script that will monitor the memory usage and if it peaks over… >>> More
HIGH CPU USAGE + low memory usage

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
as you can see in below , there are high cpu usage by httpd request. please help me to decrease them. thanks. 28577 apache 15 0 99676 53m 3488 S 21 0.2 1:13.67 httpd 28568 apache 15 0 99676 53m 3496 S 19 0.2 1:14.92 httpd 28608 apache 15 0 99676 53m 3428 R 19 0.2… >>> More
Should one replace the usage addJSONData of jqGrid to the usage of setGridParam(), and trigger('relo

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi everybody who use jqGrid! I am a new on stackoverflow.com and it seems to me that a lot of peoples who use stackoverflow.com are not only the persons who have a problem which must be quickly solved. A lot of people read stackoverflow.com to look at well-known things from the other side. Sometime… >>> More
Oracle 11g Object privileges and synonym usage

as seen on Internet.com - Search for 'Internet.com'
Many security breaches occur across user granted privileges and floating unused synonyms. That being said, the question becomes, how can we get a handle on this. Read on to learn more... >>> More