Revenge of the nerds

For this article I've found plenty of interesting things, starting with the concept of the “pointy-haired boss”, the one that doesn’t know of technology, but has some specifications based on the popularity of a language or the standardization of the software industry. I liked this concept principally because of the necessity of comprehension from the technologists to the authorities, but not submitting about the thinks that we know for sure, like the importance of the development’s language for a project.

I’ve found some value on the premise that the most modern programming languages slowly are becoming more and more like Lisp, and even when it was, at first, a shocking statement, I’ve realized that it is true. Python, for example, it tending to the simplicity at the expressions and is starting to look like a functional based language (considering that Python wasn’t thought for that), that doesn’t happen to be an accident, is just a better way of making more complex problems, easier.

Talking about the part of the averages vs the uncommon and more powerful languages, he mention’s again about the macros and the impact of using Lisp on a practical way, not only because it’s easier to develop for problems with a high complexity, but also for the velocity in a business matter. The comparison was simply brutal, a develop made in a year with C compared to the same advance in Lisp only using 3 or 4 weeks, a bet that everyone will take.

For last, I think that the lesson went beyond this time, is not only to use Lisp or to try it for startups or in certain situations, The lesson that I felt reading this article was to sometimes is really worth to take risks and to do things by the unconventional way, not to do this always, but at the times that could be reliable, don’t stay at the “industry best practices” and go further, the reward may be greater than you think.