There&#x27;s a popular essay by PG written in 2001 [0] about how Lisp gives a real advantage in creating a startup, and allowed them to beat competitors.<p>Do you think any current programming technology gives this kind of real world advantage? There are many &quot;cool&quot; techs but I don&#x27;t think they give a real advantage in most cases.<p>Probably about 10 years ago using Python or Ruby still qualified as &quot;beating the averages&quot;, but nowadays I think the &quot;startup tech&quot; has taken over the world so everyone is already using the leaner, simpler and more productive languages and frameworks (instead of say J2EE or C++).<p>[0] http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;avg.html
Ask HN: “Beating the Averages” in 2016?