begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:28:58PM -0800: > > It due to thought processes. C is how computers think. Exactly how they [snip] > LISP is just a /different/ way of thinking. If most people grew up > with 'C type thinking' that doesn't mean they couldn't learn this > new way of thinking and get benefits.... give yourself more credit! :)
Non-optimized C has a close correspondence to assembly code, to the point that if you're writing both, you can easily start to translate assembly code fragments into C. . . I do not know if the old "Lisp Machines" had an instruction set that corresponded to Lisp constructs, but I have heard of "forth chips" that apparently implement forth in silicon. [snip] > I'd have to agree with you. Paul Graham says we really have only 2 strands > of very clean language families....the C family (C, C++, Java, > C#, etc.) and the LISP family, with languages moving more towards > the LISP side in recent years. I wonder how much of that "moving towards" is wishful thinking? How does he categorize Smalltalk and Forth? -Stewart "Don't forget the lexical versus dynamic scoping axis!" Stremler -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
