48 hour game jam

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Mon Oct 15 13:41:54 PDT 2012


On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 20:20:28 UTC, so wrote:
> On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 17:58:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
>> Now try doing this in C++. It is in all likelihood plain 
>> impossible, or
>> so extremely painful that it's not worth the suffering to 
>> implement.
>>
>>
>> T
>
> Having read some Lisp recently, i was so lucky it was not my 
> first language.
> It would have been a very frustrating experience having to 
> adopt other languages, required to write code in them. I don't 
> have experience on it and don't know how it scales with bigger 
> projects but as someone who sees the importance of 
> metaprogramming in D/C++, it is disturbing when you find out it 
> was a 50 years old concept.

Now imagine those that have experimented how powerful Lisp and 
Smalltalk based OS were.

It is so sad to see IDE makers still trying to replicate the 
experience from those environments.

--
Paulo


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