Re: State machine representation

From: Harald Hanche-Olsen (hanche_at_math.ntnu.no)
Date: 02/01/04 

Date: 01 Feb 2004 22:46:39 +0100

+ Dave Roberts <ldave@re-move.droberts.com>:

| Specifically, I was comparing CL's way of handling functions bound
| to symbols with that of Scheme, which honestly does seem cleaner, in
| my not so educated opinion.

I suggest you go back and search this newsgroup for discussions on the
single name space issue. Once more, I can recommend Kent Pitman's
articles. (I have no idea how hard they will be to find using the
standard search engines, but it's worth the effort. And I am sure we
wouldn't care to rehash the whole discussion all over again. We could
use some artificial intelligence scanning the newsgroup and indexing
stuff by topic, not just by words and phrases.)

| In general, Scheme seems more clean and streamlined ("regular" ?).

Ah, but to borrow a metaphor from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, so
does a drill made for the home user when compared to one made for the
professional builder. The latter may look ugly, but it is totally
reliable and gets the job done with a minimum of fuzz. And the
ugliness just fades away as you begin to appreciate the tool for what
it can do. 

-- 
* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- Debating gives most of us much more psychological satisfaction
  than thinking does: but it deprives us of whatever chance there is
  of getting closer to the truth.  -- C.P. Snow

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