Re: Consulting position offered: Common Lisp / javascript

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:32:09 -0400, Ken Tilton <kentilton@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



JP Massar wrote:

The BioBike project, ( http://www.biobike.net,

Hmmm. From the "Why Lisp?" essay:

"As for being impossibly complex, it's not any more complex than any
other programming language. (Those who don't know Chinese think it's
hard too, but the Chinese don't!)"

Er, bad example. Tone to differentiate meaning? A language of nothing
but idiomatic expressions? Fuggedaboutit.

Also: "C and friends are designed for writing large, industrial-strength
programs,..." Industrial-strength? So Lisp is a toy again? <sigh>

".. and have lots of features -- such as required type declarations --
that make them run FAST."

Unlike Lisp? Do us a favor, next time you want to boost Lisp.... please
don't!

:)

I didn't write any of what you are quoting.

"I am just a humble servant."

Please direct complaints about semantics, tone, syntax etc to
the author, whose email address can easily be found via the links.
.

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