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Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? |
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Mon, 3 Jan 2011 20:49:38 -0800 (PST) |
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On Jan 3, 6:05 pm, Tim Harig <user...@ilthio.net> wrote:
> On 2011-01-03, Didier Verna <did...@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
>
> > Nathan <nbeen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Matz himself admitted that ???...Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp... But it
> >> is nicer to ordinary people.???
>
> > This misconception that you must be exceptionally clever to learn and
> > use Lisp really hurts the language and the community.
>
> What hurts the LISP community far more is the zealotry of its members,
> their insistance that LISP is the *only* tool for *every* job, and their
> agressiveness in trying to push it off on to everybody else -- whether
> everybody else happens want it or not. Whether this is indicitive
> of the entire community or simply the result of those most apparent,
> I cannot say; but, it leads to the overall impression that the LISP
> community is narrowminded and neophobic. Who would want to be part of
> such a community?
There are more mundane reasons -- like unsuitability of lisp as a
distribution platform
[See http://www.newartisans.com/about-me.html where John Wiegley
explains why he switched from lisp to C++ for his program ledger ]
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, (continued)
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Jerome Baum, 2011/01/02
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Paul Rubin, 2011/01/02
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, w_a_x_man, 2011/01/02
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, w_a_x_man, 2011/01/02
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, LanX, 2011/01/03
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Frank GOENNINGER, 2011/01/02
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, w_a_x_man, 2011/01/07
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevelfunctional language to the level of FORTH ?, WJ, 2011/01/09
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Didier Verna, 2011/01/03
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Tim Harig, 2011/01/03
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?,
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- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, D Herring, 2011/01/04
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Tim Harig, 2011/01/04
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Tim Bradshaw, 2011/01/04
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Tim Harig, 2011/01/04
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Tim Bradshaw, 2011/01/04
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Tim Harig, 2011/01/04
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Tamas K Papp, 2011/01/04
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Tim X, 2011/01/04
- [OT] LISP community advocacy [was Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?], Tim Harig, 2011/01/04
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Tim Bradshaw, 2011/01/05