Re: Lisp is Sin

Eli Gottlieb <eligottlieb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> vedm wrote:
>> Eli Gottlieb <eligottlieb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>>Once again, just because a better language hasn't been invented doesn't
>>>make Lisp the Supreme Language Ever. I admit that Lisp can emulate
>> Lisp was not invented, it was discovered, as Paul Graham lucidly
>> explains here:
>> http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
>>
> Lisp is not any sort of God Given Scientific Law of Programming
> Language. It was invented, and I've read the stupid essay.

You're right, because the discussion is about Lisp as a language and
its implementations. But vedm's point is a little fuzzier when
applied to Lisp as a notation for expressing functions. Common Lisp
is an invention, no doubt about it, but I'm not sure if mathematical
notations are "invented" or "discovered" or none of the above.

--

Bill Atkins
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