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		gaius on July 4, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I'm not using Lisp What you say is true, of course, but at the same time it's true of any Turing-complete languages, and therefore, meaningless. I'm not a bad engineer because I don't have time to start every project from the bare metal. Runtime and libraries make a huge difference in the real world. Sure I'd love to spend the time really diving deep and making LISP into the perfect DSL for me, but the truth is, I can just use Python and go.

xlnt on July 4, 2008 [–]

it's not the same in any turing-complete language. lisp makes adding new "language level features" easy, and python makes it hard.

i'm not saying you should always use lisp for everything. but for this particular issue lisp has a major advantage.

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