> Lisp is truly beautiful, you have to try to see its beauty. The concept > of a program that can write itself at run-time and then be evaluated > (executed) is truly brilliant. Given the time when it was envisioned... > I've never coded it, but I've seen it. They syntax makes it impenetrable... too many parenthesis.
> C is cool, but from totally different perspective. C++ is just > monstrous. I think C++ is actually a Hummer H1 of programming languages. > You can drive to the super market with it, and you can also go all the > way off-road. And if you handle it right and give it proper maintenance, > it will not disappoint you. Lisp on the other hand is like a glider - > taking you from A to B in a gentle breeze. > I don't code much, and when I do it's generally low-level hardware-in-the-loop, realtime stuff. For that, C is about perfect IMO... all the power and flexibility of assembly, with the ease of use of... assembly. -Cory -- ************************************************************************* * Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA * * Electrical Engineering * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * ************************************************************************* -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net