On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC LISP came first. I find it's notation annoying at best and > impenetrable at worst.
Its one of those "you get it, or you dont" type of languages. In our first semester of Computer Science, when we were introduced, there were lots of people in the first category, mainly they came from Fortran or Basic backgrounds. I struggled until it suddenly "clicked" when we had to write a program to do symbolic differentiation. > C and C++ were elegant, until such things a Templates, (with their > particularly un-C like syntax), were grafted onto the language. > > Now ForTran that was man's language. > > Scott Loveless wrote: > > 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 > > > > ;) > > > > > > > -- > -- > > The more I know of men, the more I like my dog. > -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
