[rescue] Re: lisp

[Mario A. Graziosi]

All this talk of lisp, and no one mentions Guy steele? 
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/html/cltl/cltl2.html

the end-all of lisp references.

-mario

> On June 21, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > >   ...and you may name a hundred systems.  Maybe even five
hundred.
> > > Compare that to the number of packages written in, say,
> > > C...FORTRAN...C++...hmm? ;)  *poke*
> > 
> > Just because a language doesn't have popular support doesn't mean it
> > is bad.  Just like having popular support doesn't mean it is good
> > (ahem, VB).  In the case of Lisp, I feel that it's problem is people
> > who don't use the proper editor (if you learn the commands, emacs
> > makes dealing with the parens quite simple), and/or think of it as
> > just an AI language, thanks to those stupid 70s and 80s wanks.
> 
>   HEY hey hey...I never said it was *bad*, man...
> 
> > OK.  First, I recommend Scheme over Lisp.  I think it gets the point
> > across a lot faster than lisp does, and I think it is pretty easy to
> > switch back and forth, and the best thing I've found for learning
> > either is for scheme.
> 
>   What are the differences?  I know they're related in some way but
> I'm not sure how.  Is it easy to summarize?
>