Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31 Jul 2005 13:09:28 +1000: > Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31 Jul 2005 05:29:34 +1000: >> > Hello >> A study which I earnestly urge you to embark upon. Lisp is a much >> nicer, more regular language than C or C++, and higher level, too. > it may be as you described it, but what about efficiency? its use in > the scientific/academic circle? mission critical applications... etc Efficiency, as in Whetstones, Dhrystones, Rhollingstones, and so on, is not Lisp's thing - it's (usually) an interpreted language. As for the scientific/academic circle, I don't really know, but I'd think so. And I don't know what a "mission critical application" is. :-) No, the thing about Lisp is its culture and history. It goes back to 1957, when processing speeds were measured in kHz, not GHz, and core store was a few thousand 36-words of little iron beads threaded on wires, and RMS was just another little boy. And if computer programming still exists in 2057, Lisp probably has a better chance of surviving through till then than any of the thousands of other Johnny-come-lately languages which have popped up in the last few decades. If you learn Lisp, you'll get a good insight into just how badly designed most other programming languages are. Get Lisp onto your CV, and you'll be making the statement to your next employer "I am a man of culture, an island of stability in the maelstrom of chaos, a possessor of shrewd judgement, somebody who takes the long sober view, unswayed by the vagaries of transient fashion." And, of course, you'll be able to use Emacs more effectively. -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a"). _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
