On 1/26/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Gonz wrote: > > > On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. > >> > > > > Its IMO one of the truly unique and elegant languages with elegant > > roots. The data = program paradigm is one of the concepts it > > introduced and its too bad that it wasnt adopted by other languages, > > i.e. lambda is beautiful. > > Ok, geeky trivia time ... which came first, LISP or FORTRAN? And no > peeking at google.com... ;-) > What is FORTRAN, Alex?
BTW, as much as most hate it, I rather like FORTRAN. "If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing." Please see: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html ;) -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com Shoot more film! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
