Ron Garret wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jfj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ron Garret wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Erik Bethke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have NEVER experienced this kind of programming joy.
Just wait until you discover Lisp!
;-)
I've had it with all those lisp posts lately ;-)
There were functional and non-functional programming languages (the first being *much* simpler to implement). There is a *reason* people chose C over lisp. It's not that we were all blind and didn't see the amazingness of lisp. Procedural languages are simply better, and I'm not replying to this flamewar.
Then neither am I.
Yes, there's a reason people choose C over Lisp, just as there is a reason that people choose Windows over OS X, the Ford Taurus over the Lexus SC400, and Perl over Python. But I'm pretty sure joy isn't that reason. If joy is part of your quality metric for a programming language then Lisp is worth a look. (And it costs a lot less than a Lexus.)
Well, in the Computer Programming for Everyone stakes I'm pretty sure that LISP and its derivatives don't stand a chance, simply because of the rebarbative syntax one must use to express even relatively simple algorithms and data structures.
While the language has a lot going for it in the hands of an experienced and determined LISPer, the average programmer just isn't going to "get it".
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