Re: Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

2007-06-27 Thread joswig
On Jun 27, 10:51 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > I personally use Emacs Lisp every day and I think Hedgehog Lisp (a > tiny functional Lisp dialect intended for embedded platforms like cell > phones--the runtime is just 20 kbytes) is a very cool piece of code. > But using CL for

Re: Programming challenge: wildcard exclusion in cartesian products

2006-03-20 Thread joswig
> I had a crack at it in Lisp. My version doesn't work - but of greater > concern to me is that it doesn't appear nearly as compact as the C > version. Anyway, here's my Lisp code (no prizes for guessing that I'm a > noob to Lisp): Lot's of things you can write more compact. But compact is not alw

Re: If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

2009-07-21 Thread Rainer Joswig
On 21 Jul., 06:57, Frank Buss wrote: > Scott Burson wrote: > > Have you looked at ECL? > > >http://ecls.sourceforge.net/ > > > I've used it only a little, so I can't vouch for its stability, but it > > fits the threading and license requirements (well, some corporate > > lawyers have trouble with