Mark Carter wrote: > At the risk of being labelled a troll
One thing I just discovered, and by which I mean *really* discovered ... is that Lisp is an interactive environment. I am working on trying to verify the contents of disks. I noticed that the input formats are slightly wrong, and needed correction. In fact, there's a whole host of jiggery pokery that I need to do in order to massage and build up everything the way it needs to be. A programmers mindset is usually geared towards "writing applications". What I'm currently doing in Lisp is building up functions as I need them. Using emacs, I can just C-x C-e to make my functions "live", and when it's time to stop for the day, save my working image so that I can use it the next day. It seems to me that only Forth or Scheme really matches this capability. Ruby and Python come kinda close - they do have a REPL, but it's kinda clunky to try to create functions on the fly, plus of course they don't support the idea of an image. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list