On November 6, 2005 10:58 AM Tim Daly wrote: > > boot and lisp attack the same problem with different syntax. > in the same environment, namely the execution environment of > the interpreter boot loses > > backquote > macros > structures > data-program symmetry > .... > > if we were going to keep a boot-level syntax i'd argue for > recoding the whole interpreter into python. at least python > is a recognized language with documentation and a user base. >
There is more to the change from lisp to boot than just syntax. But I agree with your point about the (possible) relevance of python. In fact we discussed in this email list probably more than 3 years ago. (Would you like me to lookup on the reference in the email archive?) > but lisp will do what python does Boot also does what python does even more so. > lisp code for the interpreter exists and works and currently uses Boot. > lisp has documentation and a user base > i know lisp. No argument there. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
