On November 6, 2005 11:10 AM Tim Daly wrote > ... > boot is NOT a higher level language than lisp. Spad is.
I think boot is a higher level language than lisp. In my previous email I intended to quote Jergen Weiss' example of the use of destructing in Boot: > 4. Destructuring setq and destructuring comparisons > One of the highlights in BOOT is the possibility > to use destructuring setqs and destructuring comparisons. > This is extremly handy. Some random examples: > > for [[.,arg], :.] in singles while null tuple repeat > if arg is ['Tuple,.] then tuple := arg > > a is [=op,b,t1] => > > Without this feature the code will get almost unintelligible. > And this feature is used in almost every line of code. Of course Ansi lisp does support such operations at a fairly high level. That is what motivated me to include the adoption of Ansi lisp in Axiom as the first of my "terms". Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
