Re: what kind on programming is lisp?

From: Jerry Avins (jya_at_ieee.org)
Date: 03/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:46:30 -0500

Förster vom Silberwald wrote:

   ...

> I really wonder what your programs are about and which kinds of
> problems you try to solve. I by all honesty cannot understand why you
> once upon a time felt into that Forth trap. I mean you were using Lisp
> - right? Sorry I cannot understand why people chose a lesser
> programming language. Have you ever wondered why people resort themself
> to using Windows? I have no explanation for such behavior.
>
> My experience (not long enough to weight in that discussion) however,
> was the opposite of yours: I do not really have the time and patience
> to debug Forth programs. In Bigloo I get very robust prgrams which are
> easy to change and predestined for re-using legacy code.
>
>
> Regards,
> Förster vom Silberwald
> PS: Not to everyones pleasure in clf. I am writing my PhD in physics.
> My supervisor of my PhD assigned me a new Master student of him. I will
> have to supervise the Master student in the next couple of months or
> years. However, his programming experience is limited. I said to him he
> may use what he wants (even he is that lunactic and wants to use
> Fortran 95) I do not mind. But I would make one exception: he should
> really refrain from using Forth. That will not put him far because he
> will have to manage big data sets from the field of atmopsheric
> sciences.

Sadly, you are misinformed. With broader experience, you would know
better. Too bad!

Jerry 

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