On September 15, 2006 10:51 AM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > Kai Kaminski writes: > ... > | > http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2006/014315.html > | Ok, I guess it is about the fact that ANSI CL doesn't require > | IEEE-754 floating point? Maybe I'm dense, but I don't get > | what you're trying to say (seriously). > > the claimed portability of CL over C when basic things like that > throw practitionners "out of the roof" :-) >
I suppose that should read "off the roof" (as in suicide :). I also do not see any evidence for the claimed portability of Common Lisp. On the other hand I see applications written in "C" on all platforms out numbering Lisp applications by many orders of magnitude. There of course even portability problems with Java - which was intended specifically to solve portability problems. What can we say? "Life is complicated." "Programming is a complex problem." ... Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
