On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 07:17:08PM +0200, jerome moliere wrote: > Is there a guide explaining major differences between Common Lisp &
I'm afraid, not in a single place. > PicoLisp ? I guess, reading your answer , that there 's no just a few > syntactic differences between the 2 dialects ... I can read between the > lines some philosophical major differences , right? Very good! Indeed, you are very sensitive. Basic philosophy differs in many regards, which I can't recapitulate here in a few words. Key items are compilation vs. interpretation, macros vs. fexprs, dynamic vs. static binding, data types, and - last but not least - complexity vs. simplicity. You'll find more if you dig deeper into what can be found online about PicoLisp. > What are the most difficult tasks , hot topics to be aware of when porting > a software from CL to PicoLisp ? I must confess that I don't know. You might get some ideas if you compare solutions in CL and Pil on rosettacode.org. When I solved hundreds of those tasks, I usually found it easier to look at most other languages (C, Java, Python, AWK, Shell) than at CL to get ideas about how to solve them :) ♪♫ Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
