Re: Joel hammers the final nail into Lisp's coffin

On 1 Sep 2006 13:03:49 -0700, smallpond@xxxxxxxx:

Perhaps you should read his article "Can Your Programming Language Do
This?"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html

[Note: this message doesn't contains anything about my opinion; I'm
merely trying to analyze Joel's POV.]

What Joel says thourough his articles is something like: "Lisp is very
elegant, and contains lots of ideas. Pick those ideas and put them
into another language to make working programs."

Note that in that article, he doesn't speak much about Lisp; he just
says that some functions are named from their Lisp counterpart.
What he describes can be done in several languages. If I'm not
mistaken, you can do that in PHP and Javascript, and it's not that
complicated to do (nearly) the same in C++.

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