Steven I've been thinking of having 1 or more special interest group (SIG) meetings about LISP if anyone was interested in learning more about it. Tell me if you'd be interested in rapping about LISP in person. I go to the Python SIG and wanted to branch in LISP for a bit.
Chris On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:20:52PM -0800, Steven E. Harris wrote: > [I hope I got the attribution correct.] > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:23:43AM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > > I'd grant a single data structure centric approach (in LISP, > > everything is a list, in Python, everything is a Hashtable) > > I don't know what "LISP" is, but in Common Lisp there is no single > data structure. There is the cons cell, and there are singly-linked > lists made up of cons cells, but these are only the most minimal > structures available. Various built-in functions know how to operate > on such cons-based lists or trees, but there are also "sequence" > abstractions and various iteration schemes to take advantage of them. > > As one would expect, Common Lisp supplies vectors, arrays, hash > tables, strings, structures, classes, and, with library support, just > about any other data structure one can imagine. > > You can carry on dismissing Lisp for whatever reasons you invent > rather than research, but don't let lack of data structures be one of > them. > > -- > Steven E. Harris > -- > > 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
