On 8/10/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > [...] > > > > | Writing Boot to generate Lisp is like writing Fortran to generate Aldor. > > | If you are a Fortran programmer you won't see why that's a problem. > > | If you are an Aldor programmer you can't imagine why that isn't a problem. > > | > > | But you can't make Fortran programmers into Aldor programmers. > > ... > If you want to have fun sometime, dig up Chuck Moore's papers on how he > created Forth. It was a merging of Burroughs Algol, Fortran and IBM 1130 > machine language. About the only programming languages that *aren't* > descendants of Fortran are Lisp, COBOL and APL. >
The first Lisp I ever used was written in Fortran and ran on a PDP 11. :-) Regards, Bill Page _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
