But in the immortal words of Bill Shatner: "But why?" I did, initially, recommend LISP, because it's something else you would often learn in college. That said, though, I read an article about a year ago about (I think) yahoo's hot jobs site. It was originally some other site that yahoo absorbed. The original site was one of many other similar sites that started around the same time and was done by a start up. The owners felt strongly that if you could not do something new, then do something old in a new way. So they built their site using LISP instead of C++ or Java or whatever people used for e-commerce websites 7-10 years ago. (I was using an unholy combination of Java, and ASP then) They also felt strongly that the LISP helped them make changes to the site in a quicker manner than other OO languages, and that allowed them to stay ahead of everyone. Anyway, I don't know if there is really a use for LISP beyond college or grad school, but it does have it's uses.
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Date: 2007-09-27 08:10 pm (UTC)I win!
But in the immortal words of Bill Shatner: "But why?"
I did, initially, recommend LISP, because it's something else you would often learn in college. That said, though, I read an article about a year ago about (I think) yahoo's hot jobs site. It was originally some other site that yahoo absorbed. The original site was one of many other similar sites that started around the same time and was done by a start up. The owners felt strongly that if you could not do something new, then do something old in a new way. So they built their site using LISP instead of C++ or Java or whatever people used for e-commerce websites 7-10 years ago. (I was using an unholy combination of Java, and ASP then) They also felt strongly that the LISP helped them make changes to the site in a quicker manner than other OO languages, and that allowed them to stay ahead of everyone. Anyway, I don't know if there is really a use for LISP beyond college or grad school, but it does have it's uses.