Scheduled reminder that LISP sucks!

Please don't shout Lisp.

Why does LISP suck, OP? Justify your claim, or else we might conclude that LISP rules, by default. Coming from C mindset, LISP is admittedly hard code to follow with all the parentheses and shit and oddities such as CAR and CDR that are vestigial remains from a 1950s mainframe instruction set.

Unlike C, which has no oddities whatsoever. Did you know the m' in malloc' does not mean `memory'? https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20170914/

I have to admit that LISP has a most fascinating culture, from it's genius creator (and coiner of 'AI' term) John McCarthy, to the whole MIT subculture replete with "Knights of the Lambda Calculus", SICP wizard Sussman and awesomely named Guy Steele with Scheme LISP, and the landmark MACSYMA algebra system (first CAS).

>>5,3,2

kek

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Don't talk about my other car

>>8
Is LISP anti-Semitic because of all those Nazi parentheses?

lissshshhhhhp

vc: pow

use shiichan
piss off language puritans,
kill website 4 years later
?????
revive website 10 years later
profit

>>12
yes

>>4
that's actually a really interesting article. I don't think that oddities like that make or break either language though. I think that >>3 was just getting at the fact that an uninitiated person will have trouble deciphering the purpose of those functions when viewing a lisp program.

I will never understand the rivalry between C and Lisp. One's a low-level language designed to make systems programming more orderly and make operating systems easier to port. The other is a high-level language designed so that it could be abstracted as far as the programer needs to fulfil very specific tasks.

It's like comparing Python and Ada or Javascript and C#. What do you even hope to accomplish with such a thing?

> What do you even hope to accomplish with such a thing?

Trolling and/or smug programmer wank of the "my way is the only correct way" variety.