Re: Request for comment: follow-up to Summer of Code
- From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:34:15 +0200
matthewknox@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>your problem and less about the machine. The lisp family of languages
>is unique in the degree to which it allows you to be both close to the
>machine and close to pure thought-stuff in the same language, sometimes
>even in the same program.
Please explain to me in what way Common Lisp is "close to the machine".
mkb.
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