You might be right that if it were easy to couple tools from different
levels of abstraction, it wouldn't be such a big win; but the
antecedent in this implication is false, so nothing can be concluded
about the truth of the consequent.
Too true. That's an area in which
we seem to have
Dave Long writes:
To my tastes, Lisply written Fortran is no better than Fortranly
written Lisp)
Lispy Fortran is probably good if you have to write an optimizing
compiler or a regular expression engine in Fortran, and Fortranny Lisp
is probably good if you're writing an FFT engine. Lisp is
