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0 pointszokier8y ago0 comments

> But cool is not enough to win in the real world

But is winning in the real world really important? OPs question was after all "Does this roughly offer the same benefits that the old lisp machines provided", and as LISP machines did not really win in the real world the first time around, I don't think that is really prerequisite for bringing the benefits of a LISP machine.

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tyingq8y ago· 3 in thread

I was asking more about the productivity benefits, versus any performance boost a "made for lisp" ISA might offer...

lisper8y ago

Productivity measured against what quality metric? For getting code written fast, Lisp is pretty good. For writing an operating system on which you can run a web server that will be competitive with nginx on Linux in terms of requests-per-second, probably not so much.

goldfeld8y ago

Maturity? Gets out of the way? Advanced documentation/learning material? Wealth of prior work solutions to common patterns? It's not so hard to guess what any developer's productivity is hinged on.

tyingq8y ago

I asked because many people that used them called out the machines as being very productive...above and beyond lisp. Another comment here suggests it might have been CLIM.

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