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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp
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Joshua Haberman |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp |
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Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:32:50 -0800 |
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 19:16, Tom Lord wrote:
>
> > From: Joshua Haberman <address@hidden>
> > It also leaves me with the impression that lisp is primarily the
> > domain of language tinkering as opposed to being a productive
> > tool, especially if the language is constantly morphing. This
> > cannot be your assessment though, or you would not be planning
> > to use it for itla. Why does lisp's strength as a language
> > prototyping tool/community make it the right choice for
> > implementing a program like itla?
>
> Who said anything about "language prototyping"?
You called lisp a "conversation about programming language and
programming environment design."
> Learn lisp. It's good for your brain.
Enough clearly intelligent people are interested in Lisp for me to want
to know what they're excited about. I'm not trying to make a case for
why I don't have to learn Lisp, I just want to be convinced that there's
something worthwhile I missed the first few times around. To me Lisp is
an indie band with a group of fiercely devoted followers and whose music
is definitely esoteric but not compelling. They get it and I don't.
I have worked with Lisp some, and I've read both books and code. I want
to arm myself with the right mindset so that I'll actually get something
from it the next time around.
Josh
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] is there demand for itla?, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] is there demand for itla?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/11/18
- [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Joshua Haberman, 2003/11/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Tom Lord, 2003/11/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Joshua Haberman, 2003/11/19
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: OT: Lisp, Miles Bader, 2003/11/19
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: OT: Lisp, Tom Lord, 2003/11/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Tom Lord, 2003/11/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp,
Joshua Haberman <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Scott Parish, 2003/11/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Tom Lord, 2003/11/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Jan Hudec, 2003/11/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Colin Walters, 2003/11/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Dustin Sallings, 2003/11/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Paul Pelzl, 2003/11/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Neal D. Becker, 2003/11/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Dustin Sallings, 2003/11/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Samuel Tardieu, 2003/11/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp, Dustin Sallings, 2003/11/20