>What makes you think this is not what happens in other languages?
Of course it happens in other languages. But I'm certain of two things, a strong predicate and a less strong one:
1) A thing X that happens in all/most languages, doesn't happen to the same deegree in all of them. Of this, I'm 100% certain.
2) Playing with/melding the language instead of being really productive tends to happen in Lisp a lot more (this is a personal observation, based on 1).
>A recent article made a pretty good case for Perl being the most productive language ever but I don't see people ditching their current favorite language for Perl.
For that to happen (a) the article would have to be correct (b) easy for people to verify that it is so, (c) people should have the tendecy to migrate to what's more productive (instead of what they like, are used to etc).
So I don't think the fact that "people don't migrate to Perl" despite "an article about Perl being the most productive language being published" means anything with regards to whether Lisp programmers tend to be non-productive in the real world.
Of course it happens in other languages. But I'm certain of two things, a strong predicate and a less strong one:
1) A thing X that happens in all/most languages, doesn't happen to the same deegree in all of them. Of this, I'm 100% certain.
2) Playing with/melding the language instead of being really productive tends to happen in Lisp a lot more (this is a personal observation, based on 1).
>A recent article made a pretty good case for Perl being the most productive language ever but I don't see people ditching their current favorite language for Perl.
For that to happen (a) the article would have to be correct (b) easy for people to verify that it is so, (c) people should have the tendecy to migrate to what's more productive (instead of what they like, are used to etc).
So I don't think the fact that "people don't migrate to Perl" despite "an article about Perl being the most productive language being published" means anything with regards to whether Lisp programmers tend to be non-productive in the real world.