Bill Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GC also gets rid of programs. There are programs you can write in C > > but not in Lisp, like device drivers that poke specific machine > > addresses. > > I'm sure this would be news to the people who wrote the operating > system for the Lisp machine.
That stuff is written in a special dialect of Lisp that doesn't have regular Lisp semantics and doesn't have the usual Lisp functions, IIRC. I think maybe you can't even use "cons". But my Orangenual is currently in storage so I can't easily check. Anyway I'm not willing to use "Lisp" to describe every language whose surface syntax is S-expressions. That, as JWZ put it in another context, is like trying to build a bookcase out of mashed potatoes. Lisp means Common Lisp as defined by the ANSI standard. Otherwise all languages are equally powerful as long as they have a way to inline assembly code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
