Nick Dimiduk wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Yes. There're at least four Gentoo users *that I know personally* who will be using this. So far as I know, I've never met anyone who uses clisp on Gentoo.
I use clisp on Gentoo, though we've never met.
I use clisp ... and cmucl and sbcl and gcl and guile. And sometimes Java. And often Fortran. And *all* on Gentoo. I use LISP for things LISP is good at, R for things R is good at, Perl for things Perl is good at, etc. And I'd use A Plus for things it's good at if you had it in Portage!
I took a look at "the language with the name offensive to some". It's a toy language -- an undergrad or maybe even high school computer science exercise. If all I had to work with was an Altair or a KIM-1, I'd sure experiment with it. It has exactly one thing going for it -- compactness.
Well, guess what -- I have a Pentium III and an Athlon T-Bird, and there is at least one *real* computer language just as compact -- FORTH -- represented in Portage by "gforth". IIRC the Vim syntax coloring for FORTH is already in place. As a matter of fact, IIRC an implementation of Knuth's "MIX" pedantic language is also in Portage.
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