Revenge of the Nerds
This time, the revenge of the nerds talks about the differences and the advantages of Lisp. Every programming language has its own features and that’s why it had been created. The author mentioned the “pointy-haired boss” who is a person that doesn’t know anything about technology, and for him every programming language is equivalent to another. In that way, this assertion is unreasonable because every programming language creation tries to solve a specific problematic, even some of them are extensions of another languages that includes improvements and fixes, like Java, which tries to fix and be better than C++. So, this fact makes that the assertion “all programming languages are equivalent” becomes contradictory. And it has sense, just wonder, why does someone bother himself to create a new programming language if it will be the same than the other? In the other hand, we can see that the pattern that newer languages have in common, like Java, Python and Perl, is that every time t...