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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When Google tried to translate part of the Lisp code base to C++ the result was something like 10x the size for marginal gains in speed, with similar amount of lines per programmer day... so yes on the "10x more productive" front.
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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 - 2 more replies
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