Funny. I read this piece and was waiting for the profound statement that was going to convince me. But at the end it sounded like the message was "Google guys and gals are productive in other languages than LISP". Huh!? Not very convincing... Why do I care about them? From my point of view it's me and the machine. Google is just some company.
C is beautiful for what it is. Pure. Running on the metal.
And LISP too is beautiful for what it is. Running on abstractions.
I'd say that the conclusion (I came to) wasn't just that googlers were more efficient with other languages, but that after that many years of lisp he's already more efficient with python.
C is beautiful for what it is. Pure. Running on the metal.
And LISP too is beautiful for what it is. Running on abstractions.
The rest are all kind of in between.