>This blog post shows everything that is wrong with languages like Lisp and Erlang. This is total disregard for that the rest of the world considers valuable to them.
The problem with these languages remain unchanged. The syntax is so strange and esoteric, learning and doing anything basic things with them will likely require months of learning and practice.
I can't speak for Erlang, but Lisp, really? Strange syntax? It's about as straightforward as it gets. And you can learn it in a day, a week tops.
>No serious company until its absolutely unavoidable(and situation gets completely unworkable without it) will ever use a language like Erlang or Lisp.
Lots of serious companies used both. Lisp was widely used in academia and in places like the JPL. AutoCAD worked with Lisp. Heck, even more obscure languages like OCaml are widely used in the financial domain. And today, lots of startups use Clojure. This very site (HN) is made in a Lisp.
Sure, using LISP has some drawbacks and is avoided by the mainstream enterprises today, because of lack of developers and commercial support (compared to C, Java, .NET etc).
>I bet most of these super power languages will watch other pragmatic languages like Perl/Python/Ruby/Php etc eat their lunch over the next decade or so when they figure out more pragmatic means of achieving these goals.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but Perl, Python, PHP and even Ruby have already peaked. They are not going anywhere (upwards) in the next decade or so.
I can't speak for Erlang, but Lisp, really? Strange syntax? It's about as straightforward as it gets. And you can learn it in a day, a week tops.
>No serious company until its absolutely unavoidable(and situation gets completely unworkable without it) will ever use a language like Erlang or Lisp.
Lots of serious companies used both. Lisp was widely used in academia and in places like the JPL. AutoCAD worked with Lisp. Heck, even more obscure languages like OCaml are widely used in the financial domain. And today, lots of startups use Clojure. This very site (HN) is made in a Lisp.
Sure, using LISP has some drawbacks and is avoided by the mainstream enterprises today, because of lack of developers and commercial support (compared to C, Java, .NET etc).
>I bet most of these super power languages will watch other pragmatic languages like Perl/Python/Ruby/Php etc eat their lunch over the next decade or so when they figure out more pragmatic means of achieving these goals.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but Perl, Python, PHP and even Ruby have already peaked. They are not going anywhere (upwards) in the next decade or so.