On 12 September 2014 20:12, rjf <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe I'm missing the kernel of your annoyance. I was struck by the > fact that Beebe says nice things about Common Lisp, and maybe that > was your annoyance -- after all, python version n+1 might be incompatible > with version n; and maybe there is but one implementation? (Is this > true?)
You are asking a question to what you know the answer. Don't try to fool us - you must know Python 3 is not backwards compatible with version 2. > whereas a system that compiles on 8 different ANSI common lisp > implementations, several of which are open-source... strikes his as > a plus. (Will there ever be an incompatible revision of ANSI CL? > don't hold your breath...) But the fact remains that Lisp is quite an obscure languge. Very few outside computer science students learn it. Whereas learning C++, C, Python, MATLAB, Labview etc is likely to be beneficial for employment, the same is not true of Lisp. I don't think a program like could exist if developers needed to learn Lisp first. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
