Re: Lisp is Sin

Kenny Tilton wrote: 
Eli Gottlieb wrote:

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

David Trudgett <wpower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

(I like that name, by the way! My only question is, why is Lisp your
favourite programming language?! :-))





I've learned a number of programming language, searching everytime for
a better one.  I've even started to design my own languages.
Eventually, I started to use emacs lisp and Common Lisp  and found the
_ultimate_ language, which frees my mind of that language quest I had.


Just because nobody's thought of anything better than Lisp doesn't make it the ultimate language.


That is not why it is the ultimate. It is the ultimate because it can morph itself to handle the better things people think of. And do not think any language can do that (or start talking about Turing equivalence <g>). When Lisp adopted OO we got CLOS, the best OO out there. When C adopted OO we got C++. Nuff said?

kenny
Since when is CLOS the best OO out there? It is a certain style of OO that happens to work remarkably well as part of Lisp, but I'd think that Smalltalk takes the prize for best OO out there.
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