Re: Reddit Guys on the Pros and Cons of Lisp
In article <m3lkz7l66i.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jayessay <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Adam Connor <ufo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > From
> >
http://www.davidnewberger.com/wp/2005/11/28/
> if-you-havent-reddit-you-are-missing-out/
> >
> > tremendous community support the other languages have. There are few
> > libraries, few implementations, and little real-world examples of
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> If nothing else, this bit is crazy. There are probably too many
> implementations floating around if anything.
Yep. How many implementations are there of Perl, Python, Ruby, Visual
Basic, PHP?? Doesn't stop any of them.
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Relevant Pages
- Re: How Common Lisp sucks
... Common Lisp the language + readily available libraries + ... The criterion is that the process have an identifiable resolution. ... If enough implementations support Gray ...
(comp.lang.lisp) - Whats wrong with *.IMPL.sls compatibility files?
... specific functionality for use by portable libraries and programs. ... you could portably use `pretty-print' like so: ... (import (acme output compat))) ... implementations that don't provide `pretty-print'. ...
(comp.lang.scheme) - Re: Interesting developments since "Beating the averages"?
... the differences between Common Lisp and Scheme, the conventional wisdom that they get here is that Scheme is a minimalist standard, in order to get anything practical done with it one needs a library that brings it up to the level of Common Lisp and, since in Common Lisp the library is standardized and in Scheme it's typically implementation specific, Common Lisp is in that respect superior. ... You don't need standards to get things done, you only need portable libraries. ... It seems that the only solution would then be to drop Common Lisp and go with a new Lisp dialect that doesn't suffer from the large number of implementations. ...
(comp.lang.lisp) - Re: Symbol tables and scopes
... D> definitions and their implementations. ... D> imports required modules, so that a global search path is neither ... standards, implementations, and libraries. ... IMO the chaos is one of the fundamental principles of C, ...
(comp.compilers) - Re: Verbose functional languages?
... believe it will be difficult to surpass the practical success of OCaml ... are writing good libraries for it). ... because the language was pushed with marketing money. ... Existing FPL implementations like OCaml and Haskell bask in the glory ...
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