May I join in :-) ? This is my first post here, so hello everybody. In one sentence, I like computing (that's introduction).
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, BGB wrote: > I once had a good experience using Scheme, which has influenced most of my > later efforts (despite me generally switching to a more traditional > C-family-like syntax, invoking many accusations of "blub" and similar). I have had a good experiences with Racket, a Scheme superset on steroids, few years ago (when its name was DrScheme). I have pushed it too hard, so it burped a core at me from time to time. Because of this I switched to Common Lisp, but I still like it - it has IDE, JIT and is crossplatform (Win/Lin/Mac). It has a good number of third party addons, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language) > I also found Self an interesting language to look at. > > > Lisp-style syntax does have some merits, but also some drawbacks. sadly, for > general purpose programming, I think its drawbacks outweigh its merits. list > operations and "code as data" are cool, but are not enough to justify making > the whole syntax be this way. I would say, no syntax and no language does 100% of the job. I consider myself somewhat switched to Lisp, but I don't forget about C, Python and Scheme (and, maybe, Haskell, when I learn it). Maybe there should not be the one and only, perfect language. Especially that no language that I looked at could fit. > likewise for having a text-editor where they can enter arbitrary-sized > expressions and then send them to the REPL, ... > > no ideal solutions here that I am aware of. I'm not sure if you ever tried emacs with slime? Maybe it is not perfect but it works for me. Slime is for befriending Common Lisp's REPL and taming it into emacs (I have read it can do the same with Clojure, but never had enough time to check). Or maybe I just didn't ram the wall yet. I should try harder. Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
