On Oct 9, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Carlton Gibson wrote:
> > 2008/10/9 Derek Belrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> On Oct 9, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Carlton Gibson wrote: >>> >>> Sorry, history of computer science lesson here but, what was LISP >>> then? -- All in the name of things to do with BBEdit of course. >> >> The reason we have emacs :) > > No, that's too clever for me... I just don't have the background. I'm > going to have to ask you to explain. > > Carlton > Who started with Dreamweaver and is working backwards. EMACS (http://www.gnu.org/emacs) is a giant environment originally meant as a text editor. It was written in LISP, all configuration in LISP, all extensions written in LISP. It's still an editor, but now it's considered an OS providing you access to email, IRC, IM, games, databases, et al... The thing is a giant LISP interpreter. But back to the topic, Smalltalk is considered the first fully implemented, purely object oriented programming language. There were others, Simula was one of the first to introduce concepts later used in object oriented languages such as Smalltalk, python, java, etc. Simula influenced the object orientation found in later versions of lisp, known as object-lisp. The concept of perl, I find perl object orientation hacky, a second thought add on to appease people. Perl's strength, it's flexibility is often what I hate most about it. Sure you can write this code in all kinds of fun obfuscated, hard to read, l33t ways, good for you. I won't touch it and it will be replaced. I know plenty of perl people who can't write clean code, they only know perl and can't grasp other languages because they've spent too much time exploiting all the flexibility in perl. That's their weakness, not of the language. The lack of coherency in perl is a major flaw, in my opinion. -D --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
