David Roundy wrote: > > 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? > > Lisp is impure, weakly typed and has way too many parentheses. Why would > we use lisp? It seems to be lacking almost all the advantages of Haskell, > and have an ugly, inflexible syntax to boot.
The ability to dynamically generate, manipulate and analyse code in a structured manner provides a flexibility which is unmatched by any other language I know of. A good example is Emacs; lisp is entirely the right language for that, IMHO. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe