Why Lisp?
A lot of people ask us the question, why do we choose to use Common Lisp as our primary development language? Often times the question comes disguised as a suggestion: “Flask is a great webserver you should consider using”. This is a well intentioned suggestion- of course we would like to use the best tools available! Below, we’ll do our best to explain why we use Lisp, and why we think it is the best tool for our needs.
This is a difficult question to answer, because without knowing Lisp and the concepts from the language, it is impossible to deeply explain the benefits of said language. In the following article, we’ll discover and briefly examine what makes Lisp a powerful and relevant language over 60 years after its conception.
Read in full here:
https://atlas.engineer/technical-article/why-lisp.org
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