So how would we go about switching the entire software industry to use LISP more? I've been struggling with this idea for awhile. It seems that the best languages don't get adopted.
The only consistent explanation I've seen that it is about 'easy'. The other languages have tools to make them easy, easy IDE's, the languages 'solve' one 'thing' and using them for that 'one thing' is easier to than building your own in LISP.
You can do anything with LISP, sure, but there is a learning curve, lot of 'ways of thinking' to adopt the brain to in order to solve problems.
Personally, I do wish we could somehow re-vamp the CS Education system to focus on LISP and other ML languages, and train more for the thinking process, not just how to connect up some Java Libraries.
The only consistent explanation I've seen that it is about 'easy'. The other languages have tools to make them easy, easy IDE's, the languages 'solve' one 'thing' and using them for that 'one thing' is easier to than building your own in LISP.
You can do anything with LISP, sure, but there is a learning curve, lot of 'ways of thinking' to adopt the brain to in order to solve problems.
Personally, I do wish we could somehow re-vamp the CS Education system to focus on LISP and other ML languages, and train more for the thinking process, not just how to connect up some Java Libraries.