On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:00:43PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > It is not just you. Many people complain about the impedance mismatch > between Lisp and algorithms. Lisp maps to recursive/tree algorithsm > very well. Iterative and decision algorithms, not so much. > > Of course, doing tree-based algorithms in Java and C tends to be a > painful experience.
Why must this be so? If I'm not mistaken, Java and C have recursion and Common Lisp has iterative syntactic sugar. So why can't everyone by happy doing both kinds in each language? cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
