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RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: Boot vs. Lisp
From: |
Mike Thomas |
Subject: |
RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: Boot vs. Lisp |
Date: |
Tue, 1 Nov 2005 07:01:11 +1000 |
Hi Bill.
| So as much as I do respect lisp, I have serious doubts about
| the claim that "The skill to understand and debug lisp is
| likely to be more common down the road". For example, I think
| that in the short time that Python has existed (relative to
| lisp), it currently has many many more active programmers
| than lisp. Of course BOOT is not Python, but my point is that
| a typical Python programmer (e.g. "me" :) has much less
| resistance learning BOOT then learning lisp.
Ditto from my Haskell/ML perspective. Once I understood the
relationship between BOOT and the Axiom language I found it much more
readable.
One wonders, however, just how complicated a build system actually has
to be particularly as Lisp is used elsewhere in Axiom.
Cheers
Mike Thomas
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