Beating the Average

This article is very interesting because it explains on why the author says that Lisp is a very powerful language. He starts telling a story of a company to say the least that was developed in with Lisp and in that time it was a very good advantage because every other app was developed in C and was running in the desktop, what made this program in Lisp so unique was that was build in their own servers, which means that they could use whatever language they wanted (Lisp), and that they could write and developed thing in a more efficient time, so when their competitors built a feature to stand out, they could replicated ore ven make it better.

After that story he tells us the secret of why using Lisp was their secret weapon. In first place he stated that using a language that almost anybody uses or even understands is a key point. Also that Lisp use something called macros, as he explains, macros are programs that make programs, so, What that means is that the code of a program is doing things that you can't easily do in any other language, if you ask me, that is a huge advantage in regards to programming.

He tends to say that we should try to take a look to Lisp, that we should not be afraid of the way that it’s syntaxis works with to many parenthesis or that the companies do not use it. The author, with a reasonable paradox, called “The blub paradox” says in a few words that we should not “marry” an X language, because it would always be a more powerful language for some tasks, it remind me of the saying that  there is always a bigger fish, and with all of this I could expect that that big fish is Lisp.