On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:48:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> http://www.podval.org/~sds/tool.html
Sounds like an old FUD-ridden broken record with no data to back it up.
LISP is good because it has:
memory management
objects
closures (weirdly stated as "egalitarianism")
a large library
introspection
Yet Perl is bad because it is:
a write-only language
idiosyncratic (implementation is exposed to the programmer -- somehow)
"object disoriented" (the old lack of first-class support for
filehandles is cited, even though that issue is long fixed)
I found Paul Graham's _Beating the Averages_ to be much more worthwhile,
but *not* because he saw Perl and Python shops almost as effective as
Common Lisp shops (while C++/VB/Java/etc. shops aren't a concern).
:-)
Z.
