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Post #154,648
by ChrisR
5/11/04 3:10:56 PM
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New One of the problem is that by the time a comprehensive...
comparison between Lisp and an Algol like language can be done, the Algol like language suddenly, and inexplicably, dies. Lisp will be here a hundred years from now. Java, and most of the other "standard" languages will not.
Post #154,696
by tablizer
5/11/04 6:57:45 PM
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New You are probably right, but I'll be long retired by then
It is interesting to note that Yahoo replaced most of Paul Graham's Lisp code for the e-stores. If Yahoo did not like Lisp, why did they buy the damned thing? To get customers only?
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     Why I find LISP hard to read - (tablizer) - (25) - May 7, 2004, 02:35:30 AM EDT
         Scheme to the rescue - (ChrisR) - May 7, 2004, 10:27:59 AM EDT
         Care to offer an example where there is some ambiguity? - (ben_tilly) - (20) - May 7, 2004, 10:39:07 AM EDT
             Allowed in CLOS but not in Scheme - (ChrisR) - (16) - May 7, 2004, 10:46:36 AM EDT
                 Care to show me the example? - (ben_tilly) - (15) - May 7, 2004, 11:53:03 AM EDT
                     Lisp is a family of languages - (ChrisR) - (14) - May 7, 2004, 12:35:17 PM EDT
                         Rethinking, reloading. :-) - (ChrisR) - (13) - May 7, 2004, 01:02:43 PM EDT
                             Thanks for the confirmation - (ben_tilly) - (1) - May 7, 2004, 02:24:26 PM EDT
                                 Special forms - (ChrisR) - May 7, 2004, 02:29:59 PM EDT
                             just trying to learn - (tablizer) - (10) - May 7, 2004, 03:32:51 PM EDT
                                 As far as I understand - (ChrisR) - (9) - May 7, 2004, 03:59:52 PM EDT
                                     More on s-expressions - (ChrisR) - May 7, 2004, 08:17:02 PM EDT
                                     Downsides of flexibility - (tablizer) - (7) - May 10, 2004, 03:25:50 PM EDT
                                         Less flexible = good? - (ChrisR) - (6) - May 10, 2004, 04:34:10 PM EDT
                                             Dejavu - (FuManChu) - (2) - May 11, 2004, 12:44:10 PM EDT
                                                 I like big apps and I can not lie. - (ChrisR) - May 11, 2004, 04:19:46 PM EDT
                                                 Language de jour - (ChrisR) - May 11, 2004, 04:26:02 PM EDT
                                             Standards versus flexibility - (tablizer) - (2) - May 11, 2004, 02:34:04 PM EDT
                                                 One of the problem is that by the time a comprehensive... - (ChrisR) - (1) - May 11, 2004, 03:10:56 PM EDT
                                                     You are probably right, but I'll be long retired by then - (tablizer) - May 11, 2004, 06:57:45 PM EDT
             A "Let" statement that sets a bunch of variables -NT - (tablizer) - (2) - May 7, 2004, 03:20:20 PM EDT
                 Ah, that is because let is a special form - (ben_tilly) - (1) - May 7, 2004, 05:11:37 PM EDT
                     Not to get in too deep... - (ChrisR) - May 7, 2004, 05:31:05 PM EDT
         OT: Why is this in Scripting? -NT - (pwhysall) - (2) - May 8, 2004, 12:27:54 AM EDT
             oh oh, I smell another fight over definition of "scripting" -NT - (tablizer) - (1) - May 9, 2004, 02:19:52 AM EDT
                 :-) -NT - (pwhysall) - May 9, 2004, 03:22:17 AM EDT

I'll even go so far as to concede that today's postliterate teenagers are already sufficiently impaired by pop culture that anything that serves to make them even more scatterbrained is rather in the way of gilding the lily, and should not be encouraged.
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