Re: ILC2005: McCarthy denounces Common Lisp, "Lisp", XML, and Rahul



Pascal Costanza wrote:

Kenny Tilton wrote:


Pascal Costanza wrote:

Kenny Tilton wrote:

[apologies if this has materialised in similar form or does so soon unbeknownst to me, but from where I sit it appears Google ate a similar report posted yesterday via google groups.]

Dr. McCarthy joined with Henry Baker, his predecessor at the microphone, in bemoaning the standardization of Common Lisp as stultifying if not mortifying, in that it ended innovation.


As much as I like Common Lisp, I think he has a point here.


Please get back to us when you have some application functionality you cannot express in Common Lisp.


...only after you have made sure that you're not implicitly using a Turing equivalence argument here. ;-P 

Nope. Fire away. But I /am/ armed with DEFMACRO, so get those shields up. :)

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