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


"fireblade" <slobodan.blazeski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1177683268.277941.10880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I just finished reading Anti Patterns Refactoring Software
Architectures,and it hint me that i'm regularly singing gospels to
lisp being a universal hummer for every kind of problem. Once in a
while somebody ask's what is lisp bad for? I basically have only two
ideas:
1.Talking with c++ (Possible but not recommended, due to c++
idiosyncrasy )
2. Erlang/Termite like processes (i wonder how many processes could
scieener support?)

What are the other domains where lisp doesn't fit in?

I suspect, as a new Lisper, that Lisp is the language of choice when you don't know the degree of recursion in your data structures, but a poor competitor when you do. If you know the full structure in advance, then an array and indirection-type language will be simpler and faster.

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