This is a resend... I guess I was supposed to hit "Replay to All" the first time.
Hi, Thanks for your response Pascal, I'm actually glad that I was wrong about some of these things. Python has more than 1 GUI package, and I believe the same is true for Java. Both of which are very popular languages, especially Java, so I'd assume that they have developed much more. For example a friend of mine who does a lot of Java for business was telling me that he was once worried about a project where he had to program one of those scanner guns they use at shopping check-outs... oddly enough, Java already had a package to detect the bar codes and somehow process them. I'd assume that LISP lacks a lot of such packages as it doesn't seem as popular, but again I'd be happy to find out that I'm wrong if that's the case. Brendon On 22 May 2010 22:45, Pascal J. Bourguignon <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
