Re: Your Guru Paul Graham is getting trashed on Slashdot.

From: David Steuber (david_at_david-steuber.com)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: 03 Aug 2004 08:58:12 -0400

jesse@phiwumbda.org (Jesse F. Hughes) writes:

> Pascal Costanza <costanza@web.de> writes:
>
> > Mike Cox wrote:
> >> After writing an article trashing java, and C++, notable LISP guru
> >> Paul Graham is getting roasted on slashdot. Apart from AutoCAD and
> >> Emacs, what has LISP done anyway?
> >
> 1> "...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics,
> 2> AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor
> 3> applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge
> 4> Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language,
> 5> Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web
> 6> Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list."
> 7> - Kent Pitman
>
> Damn. Three lines too long for a .sig.
>
> Wonderful quote.

I was just going to say that would make an awesome .sig.

I think the only reason Lisp isn't good for everything (depending on
your definition of good) is that Unix has become the predominant OS
and it uses a zoo of languages with C as the common tongue.

Now if each system had a standard fasl format like each system has a
standard .o / .dll / .dylib /.etc format... 

-- 
An ideal world is left as an excercise to the reader.
   --- Paul Graham, On Lisp 8.1

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