You said it yourself, comfort is a subjective term. So why do you talk as if Lisp were objectively more complicated. If I'm familiar with Lisp but have no clue about Perl I don't need to be a university professor with endless time to choose Lisp over Perl every time. To me, Perl looks vastly more complicated than Lisp. I believe you'd find that if you'd know Lisp like you do Perl you'd be at least as productive as you're in Perl.
To me, Perl looks vastly more complicated than Lisp. I believe you'd find that if you'd know Lisp like you do Perl you'd be at least as productive as you're in Perl.
As somebody who loves both Lisp and Perl I'd probably say you'd be as productive (unless you were sitting in a domain that one language or the other was a better fit for). Well - apart from CPAN and the testing infrastructure. And the editor/IDE support is worse unless you're already an emacs person... but those are just coz Clojure is young.
I'm thoroughly sick of the Lisp == academic == hard myth. It's just nonsense. I've taught newbie devs Lisp and Perl in the past and both groups seem to take it on at about the same pace.
>>I believe you'd find that if you'd know Lisp like you do Perl you'd be at least as productive as you're in Perl.
No,
And this is probably the reason why Lisp never took off post the appearance of C based languages. This is also why there are so many languages, because there are that many use cases for them. Denying the existence of a problem doesn't offer a solution. I can build anything quickly merely by using CPAN modules, I can manipulate strings and do all the text magic real quickly in Perl. That's not the same case with Lisp.
What you are saying is something like this. One guy wants reach from point A to B. He can either run or go in a car. You can argue that if he practices enough he can run as fast as the car, sure he can. But there is 0 logic in subjecting your legs to that kind of a torture, while all you need to learn is how to drive a car.
Now don't tell me that going from point A to B itself is wrong and he should be going to C instead.
