The Viamentis Blog

Well, there are times the c.l.l can be a pretty depressing place - people complaining on why Lisp cannot be used for production use, lack of libraries, blah blah blah - but there are times when it’s simply inspiring. As I am working more and more with lisp, and I really don’t see what’s wrong with it. I am coming more and more to the conclusion that I have been suspecting for a while - Lisp is a language for smart programmers, and very few will put in the efforts to learn it fully, as the learning curve is indeed steep, compared to say, Ruby. And those few, are worth hiring.
Here are a couple of recent c.l.l threads that make many points I agree with, and should be read for the great points they make. I can see Viamentis becoming a Lisp-heavy shop in the future - I am feeling more and more confident that it is indeed a great language to build large systems in. Sure, there are many libraries to be written, and it sounds like great fun to me :).