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Comment by DeathArrow

I can see why someone would learn Lisp as learning a different paradigm than what you are currently using helps you see thing in different ways and improves your overall ability to solve problems.

What I miss is what classes of problems Lisp helps you to solve better and faster. Why use Lisp in production?

If you want functional programming there's ML, F#, Haskell and even Javascript. If you want to develop fast, there's Go, C#, Python and so on.

I am not trying to denigrate Lisp here or to say something is better, I am genuinely asking what advantages Lisp has, what are the cases for which is it best suited in production.

parent DeathArrow 4 years ago

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