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Re: [Axiom-developer] Lisp
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Re: [Axiom-developer] Lisp |
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Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:12:59 -0500 |
>> Either you "get it" or you don't. There is no half-way with Lisp.
>> There are no words to explain what it means to "get it" until you do
>> ... and then there is no reason to explain it; you get it.
>
>Well ... many years ago I "got" Lisp. I told myself at the time that if
>I had to use one programming language for the rest of my career, it
>would be Lisp. And there were Lisp machines -- was it three vendors, two
>or four?
>
>About four years ago, I got back into Lisp during a workshop on
>algorithmic composition. You know what? A couple of decades with other
>languages, especially Perl and R, convinced me that Lisp, while an
>elegant conceptual framework, was woefully lame as a *practical*
>language. And now there's Ruby.
>
>So I saw the whole elephant. But I don't think I care to ride on it any
>more.
That's fair. There was no claim that lisp is the right language for
any particular purpose. Ruby is fine and Rails is the fastest path
to a website solution. Lisp is ill suited for that purpose and for
many other purposes.
Spad is a conceptually different level of language and is not
syntactic sugar. It is clear that you want a spad-like language to do
mathematics. Lisp is ill-suited for that purpose also.
But boot is syntactic sugar.
The real question is, do you understand why "syntactic sugar" languages
like boot disable the key strength of Lisp?
Tim
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Lisp, (continued)
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Lisp, Bill Page, 2008/03/04
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Lisp, Martin Rubey, 2008/03/05
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Lisp, Waldek Hebisch, 2008/03/05
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Lisp, Bill Page, 2008/03/05
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Lisp, Waldek Hebisch, 2008/03/06
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Lisp, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, 2008/03/06
[Axiom-developer] Lisp, daly, 2008/03/03
[Axiom-developer] Lisp, daly, 2008/03/05