Wow. Do Java? Don't 'get' Lisp? This guy nails it. Fascinating read. Warning: long read! Grab a cup of coffee, take an hour out and sharpen your programming skills. Remember - chicks dig guys with skills.
- Mike Cannon-Brookes
Thanks for sharing, the link is one of the best essay on the LISP philosophy I have ever read :-)
- Julien Ponge
IMO, a non-committal post. The downsides described were well understood by AI/KR researchers long ago and more recently by semweb researchers (I was taught most of these problems in college a decade back). I was expecting a segue into using DSLs instead of inference engines, but the post never quite got there. Zed Shaw's The ACL is Dead presentation does get there and makes the point...
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- Bill de hÓra