On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:41:01PM -0800, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > Paul Graham is trying to be this person: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham#Arc_Programming_Language
He may succeed. He seems to have good taste. > And yes, the Scheme guys were creating a better LISP, but not a better > Common LISP which they worked on *later*: "Scheme predates CL, and > comes not only from the same Lisp tradition but from some of the same > engineers?Guy L. Steele, with whom Gerald Jay Sussman designed Scheme, > chaired the standards committee for Common Lisp." -- the "Comparison > with other Lisps" of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_lisp Yea I like these guys...Steele and Sussman. 'Sure be nice to hear them speak if they are still alive. > But um, wouldn't comparing strings be awfully slow? Ug...don't go there. As a Python master, you're the last person I would have guessed would go down this slippery slope. Designing a language based on performance rather than readability/terseness/elegance is not only unPythonic, it is very 1970s. :) Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
