alt Hacker News> If it was as great as its advocates say, surely it would have taken over the world by now.
That is a big assumption about the way popularity contests work.
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samdoesnothing • last Sunday at 8:33 PM
If something is marginally better, it's not guaranteed to win out because markets aren't perfectly rational. However if something is 10x better than its competitors it will almost always win.
scragz • last Sunday at 6:51 PM
free market brain.
Invert the logic.
The big assumption here is to think that a language can be so much superior and yet mostly ignored after half of century of existence.
I'm sure Lisp has its technical merits but language adoption criterion is multi-dimensional.
Thinking Lisp should be more popular disregarding many factors of language popularity is the true "Programmer who live in Flatland".