"Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead."

[Atila Neves]

On Friday, 3 May 2019 at 07:45:33 UTC, JN wrote:
> On Friday, 3 May 2019 at 02:25:47 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
>> [...]
>
> So does Lisp. And one of the main criticism of Lisp is that 
> every programmer invents their own programming language 
> features and it's very hard to reuse code or libraries because 
> everything is written in different style.
>
> [...]

I'm not sure the Lisp curse would exist if a package manager had 
been part of the ecosystem from the beginning. Take D - anyone 
_could_ write their own parser library but basically everyone 
uses Pegged.