Andy After I got all convinced that Python was not the final word in rapid prototyping languages there you go and drop a quote in my lap that has Norvig and others trying to convince me to stay in Python and dump LISP!?
What kind of better and more rational defender of LISP is that!? :) So which is it? Is LISP useful for someone that only cares about rapid prototyping or not? It seems were back where we started. Sheesh. :) Chris > There are better voices with more rational decision making processes. > Erann Gat is a good choice: > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/ > 6f75cfb5a289d3f6?rnum=1 > > "So I can't really go into many specifics about what happened at Google > because of confidentiality, but the upshot was this: I saw, pretty much > for the first time in my life, people being as productive and more in > other languages as I was in Lisp. What's more, once I got knocked off > my > high horse (they had to knock me more than once -- if anyone from Google > is reading this, I'm sorry) and actually bothered to really study some > of > these other languges I found *myself* suddenly becoming more productive > in > other languages than I was in Lisp. For example, my language of choice > for doing Web development now is Python. > > I also saw Peter Norvig come to Google and leave Lisp behind with no > apparent regrets. (Actually, Peter and I had talked about this while we > were both still at NASA, and he was already leaving Lisp behind, which I > found very distressing at the time.)" > > -a > > -- > > KPLUG-List mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- _______________________________________ Christian Seberino, Ph.D. SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Code 2872 49258 Mills Street, Room 158 San Diego, CA 92152-5385 U.S.A. Phone: (619) 553-9973 Fax : (619) 553-6521 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
