Tim Daly, Axiom’s lead developer, has a couple of things to say about building large applications in Lisp and on picking a language:
Measure your OODA loop [observe, orient, decide and act loop] in all the languages you know. See which one cycles fastest. I’d bet that’s your favorite language.
I also happen to like the movies he recommends ;-)
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August 6, 2010 at 11:43 am
What movies?
August 6, 2010 at 1:54 pm
see the link at the end of the first post linked (just a bad joke, sorry)
August 23, 2010 at 9:38 am
Oh that movie! :)
Yes great one)))
August 11, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Yup. The thing about the impedance mismatch resonates with me. I get a lot of people going on about Haskell’s “lack of libraries,” (even at my ICFP talk!), and nobody believes me when I say that you mostly don’t need them, and often when one would be useful, existing ones can be quite painful and expensive to use anyway.