On Sat, January 6, 2007 10:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After much attempts to convince myself I should learn Lisp I just can't do > it.
I went through that once with lisp, again with forth. People kept telling me to learn cobol and fortran. I never could do it. Follow your heart, grasshopper. > > Even that argument is full of holes since modern scripting languages have > regular expressions, operator overloading and OOP which let you write > 'mini-languages'. > > Plus, Lisp loses on size of community and size of standard libraries. > How the @[EMAIL PROTECTED] am i supposed to convince myself to spend 3 years > learning > all > the goodies of Lisp then? > > Chris > > The *best* use for Lisp I can think if I that I may possibly write some > super-uber-complicated-AI-compiler-thingy in the future that begs for > macros > and self-modifying code..... > Oh, heck, you can do that all day in Tcl, and not even get in much trouble. Nothing special about lisp. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
