On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:52:19PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Until then Fortran still rules the roost for developing efficient > > complex mathematical calculations quickly. > > A. > > If been reading your informative posts with interest, > unless I've missed something, the best argument you've made for > using LISP is that in some cases it executes faster. > > It bugs me that this is the best argument for LISP. > > Chris
I'm not a lisp guy, but I had always understood that, once mastered, there was an expressive power that allowed flexible solutions to problems that almost can't be solved by procedural languages. I mean, golly, lisp was the original AI language! There are many languages (forth, tcl.tk) that have a preternatural ability to make a certain kind of knotty problem dissolve into simplicity. This is why I try to avoid language wars (some are too much fun to stay out of altogether). I think the smart money decides what type of programming problem s/he has fun attacking and then selects languages to learn accordingly. It's also why I haven't tackled lisp. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
