Dylan: the harsh realities of the market
If you're going to rant, you might want to actually have a clear point to make.<p>> college kids on comp.lang.lisp asking for the answers for problem-set 3 on last night's homework<p>Surely not during the Naggum days.  CLL was a hostile wasteland.<p>> That is the lesson of perl and python and all these other languages. They're not good for anything. They suck. And they suck in libraries and syntax and semantics and weirdness-factor and everything.<p>What?  How have you not heard of CPAN?  There is not a single language in the world that can touch Perl's libraries.  I'm not sure why you feel the need to toss either Perl or Python under the bus to make some petty point about Dylan's lack of popularity.  Python replaced Scheme at MIT.  It's time to move on.  I know I have.<p>You have to have your head pretty far up your own ass to not see how much Common Lisp <i>sucks</i>.  It's a language designed by committee, and it <i>looks like it</i>.<p>I've used Erlang too.  For everything Erlang does well, there are countless areas that make you want to bang your head against the desk.<p>Languages don't matter.  Platforms matter.  APIs matter.  Playing nicely with the rest of the world <i>fucking matters</i>.  Common Lisp wouldn't.