(This is a repost of an old blog post of mine from Teknik. This blog post was split into multiple parts to accomodate for Movim's size limitations; use hypelinks in the table of contents to navigate.)

Why are there so few instructional or advocacy bloggers?

Aidenn0

I think it's because it's a smaller and older community. Also the community is very diverse for its small size.

phoe

Oh come on. Paul Graham is enough when it comes to advocates. :)

I think it directly has to do with the size of the community. Nonetheless, Planet Lisp has a rather large list of blogs that it scraps for articles. You might want to take a look at it.

Hexstream

The best kind of advocacy is making things better, which I'm already trying to do.

Why can’t Google search find many good resources? I.e. a search for “Common Lisp” is not that helpful.

phoe

Size of the community, again. I think one of the best places for finding resources is actually going to talk with people who use the language, say, {#lisp,#lispgames,#lispweb} @ Freenode or the Lisp Discord server and ask them for advice. The language is old, websites tend to fade along with the users and become stale and not updated.

Hopefully the UltraSpec (oh gods when is he going to stop talking about it) will alleviate this.

edgar-rft

Beause there are very little good resources of anything at all in the internet. Most other things are much shittier than Common Lisp, so nobody there notices. That's the only difference. It's a perceptional illusion.