i don't normally do this, but this is a *great* article:
http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html it should shed a fair amount of light on all those language wars (and show that really, they all just want to be lisp ;). the later points in the description of "what made lisp different" (about 1/3 of the way in) exactly describes several "emerging" commonalities i've been seeing in recent languages, but i hadn't been able to put into words until now. (warning: small font size. use C-+ in mozilla) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
