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

"Malcolm McLean" <regniztar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Sat, 28 Apr 2007:
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.

Your suspicion is incorrect, and due purely to your lack of experience.

If you know the full structure in advance, then an array and
indirection-type language will be simpler and faster.

You're also confused that Lisp only supports recursion. In fact the most
popular dialect, Common Lisp, is explicitly a multi-paradigm language. EVEN
IF array access is a "simpler and faster" implementation for some algorithm,
you can program directly in that style in any standard Common Lisp. It's all
built in already.

-- Don
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