On 2010/05/21, at 02:31 , Brendon Schumacker wrote: > Hello, > > As I was saying before, I'm actually very new (or at least less > experienced) with LISP but I want to know more about it. I guess I > should fist tell you why I have this interest. If you go to my site > and look at the current article you'll see I know my fair share of > languages and have studied a lot (www.brendon-art.com). I think LISP > has a very interesting syntax, and I've heard that it's one of the > oldest language that supported important concepts such as recursion, > and basically speaking, you probably never needed to replace LISP with > any other language as much as you could just improve or grow upon it, > however C/C++ seemed to have taken over at some point in history. > Would you say that my interpretation of this history here is correct?
Coarsely, yes. > I'm a fan of the Python language as well. I like the fact that it has > an interpreter, it can run and be changed on the fly, and the syntax > is quite easy to understand and straight forward. LISP also has these > same qualities. No, that's the other way. You could say: "Lisp has these qualities. Python also has these same qualities." (We could disagree about what quality Python has or has not, but that's something else). > One worry I have with LISP is that it isn't being kept up with and so > there might not be as many interesting things you can do with it these > days. Again, that's the other way. The other programming language still aren't up to Lisp, and there are a lot of interesting things you can do easily in Lisp that you still cannot do, or cannot do easily (which is an euphemism), in the other programming languages. > Can you create a windowed desktop app (or any GUI) with LISP? > Can I connect to a network with it? What are some ways that LISP is > still being used today? Try to answer to these questions for C or Python. Remember that the ANSI C standard doesn't specify anything about MS-Windows, or bit mapped graphic user interfaces such as MS-Windows, or network communications. And AFAIK, there's not even a standard for the Python programming language! The short answer is yes, and google it. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
