On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:34:57PM +0100, Mark Carter wrote: > This is not a troll, honest, so please bear with me ... > > It struck me that Lisp was, perhaps, the Ultimate Programming > Language, the One True Language to rule them all; except that I always > kept abandoning it for one reason or another (fiddly installation, > lack of libraries, compatability problems, cost, possible license > issues, etc.). My current foray in Haskell seems encouraging. > wxHaskell installed a breeze, and seems quite usable (even though I'm > a raw n00b to the language, and admittedly haven't grokked the > semantics, and all this <cid:part1.01000702.09000407@yahoo.co.uk> IO > a -> IO () business). On the one hand, it seems kinda academic, but > on the other, it looks like it wants to be practical, too.
> Bearing this in mind, and hoping you can see where I'm coming from, I > think my question is: shouldn't you guys be using Lisp? Given the words above, I wonder why the question is this way around :) -- > Aqua Regis is HCl+H2SO4, and attacks gold. While applying it to a luser, remember to sing "What a Friend We Have In Regis". -- Patrick Wade _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe