On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:30:53PM +1000, Angus Lees wrote: > 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.
Yes, I thought the same. It's a pity that LISP's syntactical form, the inefficiency of poorly written LISP programs and a general lack of library support often makes it as popular among programmers as a leper at a beauty pageant. Still, I live in hope that Python will continue to evolve to the point where you can do all of the clever things in it that you can do in LISP with less outlandish syntax and library support for everything. And we seem to be very nearly there. -- Mark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
