Re: What are the domains that lisp doesn't fit int?

Dan Bensen <randomgeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

fireblade wrote:
What are ... domains where lisp doesn't fit in?

Drivers: close to the metal.

If lisp worked perfectly well as system programming language on the
lisp machines, what does that say on the ability of lisp for writting
drivers?


Common Lisp doesn't prevent an implementation to have implementation
specific extensions to be able to run on the bare metal, even on an
Intel processor. See Movitz.


Embedding: Poor memory resources.

If lisp worked on systems of 50 years ago, what does that say on the
memory resources needed by lisp?

The Common Lisp specification is lax enough to allow a very small
implementation, not counting even the subsets of Common Lisp that are
explicitely allowed. Have a look at the various LIMIT variables!

Limit Minimal value
--------------------------- -------------
ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT 1024
ARRAY-RANK-LIMIT 8
ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT 1024
CALL-ARGUMENTS-LIMIT 50
CHAR-CODE-LIMIT 96
LAMBDA-PARAMETERS-LIMIT 50
MULTIPLE-VALUES-LIMIT 20



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