This article claims that Lisp and SmallTalk developers are 10x more productive than developers using mainstream languages, but only in small teams. In other words, these languages don't scale. http://evrl.com/programming/2019/03/28/the-language-conundrum.html …
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I'll continue with my computing persona
@ngnghm. My conclusion about the ultimate failure of the ITA Reservation System: it was mainly a management failure to follow any but the first principle I laid in this article:https://fare.livejournal.com/171998.html -
But I can see a relationship to Lisp: being superproductive, conservative, high entry barrier, and unpopular, Lisp attracts lone wolves—so our experienced staff therefore had no social structure to fight or survive bad management.
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did you just use "lines of code written" as a metric for programmer productivity?
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As a metric of programmer speed indeed. About the same kloc/week in every language, just 10x the number of lines for the same features in C++ as for Lisp. It's also my experience with Clojure vs Java: same speed in kloc/week, 4x to 10x the line count in Java.
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