As a former Lisp programmer who now works exclusively in C++, I always feel horribly conflicted.
;-} -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On 11/25/06, Martin C. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > Well, I am in the camp that use C variants are best for serious > simulation as it factors out the uncertainties of garbage collection and > bytecodes interpreters/JITs. It is said that C programmers know that memory management is too important to be left to the computer, and the LISP programmers (and presumably Java programmers) know that memory management is too important to be left to the programmer. > But, given that Java is so popular, and > that a common (but shallow) motive for its use is to make it easy to > show customers simulations, then the possibility of a truly dynamic > language that is embedded in a browser seems like an interesting step > forward for demos or small scale simulations. > > cheers, > > Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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