"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On May 22, 2007 8:54 AM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >> ... >> Waldek wrote: >> | <rant> People frequently wonder why Perl is more popular >> | than Lisp. >> >> Oh, I thought it was Python :-) :-) >> > > People (ambiguous third parties...) often wonder why Python > is more popular than Perl ... ;) > > More seriously, this issue of Lisp (non)portability is a > major problem.
As far as I can tell, this is an odd place to mention portability of Lisp. The rant above was about Lisp's non-ability to use system calls, while Perl has that ability. Wouldn't systems calls in a piece of code tend to make it non-portable? Jay _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
