Hi Lawrence,
> monads. Does the Lisp world, specifically picoLisp, have a response to
> these insistent "Besserwisser" people?
Sure: KISS
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Thank you Alex for this very well formulated and thought out answer!@Lawrence:If you really want to do the kindergarden bullshit-contest, you could try to argue that picolisp is very strong typed, with just 3 types: symbols, lists and numbers.But as symbol is used for nearly everything, it doesn't
On 8 March 2015 at 13:52, Lawrence Bottorff wrote:
> Does the Lisp world, specifically picoLisp, have a response to these
> insistent "Besserwisser" people?
>
I sincerely hope not.
Please don't turn this into a tribal thing. This is the sort of reasoning
that led to the CL community's terrifyin
. . because all the ML-derivative languages (Haskell, F#, Ocaml) say you
absolutely HAVE to have a strong type system in order to program with the
big boys and girls. Likewise, they talk reverently about functors and
monads. Does the Lisp world, specifically picoLisp, have a response to
these insi
