On 08 Dec 2006 19:56:42 -0800, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote:
(...) > Lisp just seems hopelessly old-fashioned to me these days. A > modernized version would be cool, but I think the more serious > Lisp-like language designers have moved on to newer ideas. Paul, I find most of your comments well thought. But I don't follow these. Could you elaborate? a) "old-fashioned"? Is that supposed to be an argument? I guess addition and multiplication are old-fashioned, and so is calculus;so? I think "old-fashioned" should only carry a negative connotation in the fashion world, not in programming. b) "the more serious Lisp-like language designers have moved on to newer ideas." Can you elaborate? I am not an expert but by looking at, say, lambda the ultimate, I'd say this statement is just not true. And which are these "newer ideas"; what programming languages are incorporating them? (Scala, Mozart/Oz, Alice-ML, ...). R. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Statistical Computing Team Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO) http://ligarto.org/rdiaz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
