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



On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:11:12 -0400, <gneuner2/@comcast.net> wrote:
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:16:32 +0200, Pascal Bourguignon
<pjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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?

It says that the Lisp machines had special hardware and kernel support
to make it work.

*shrug*

unless you are going to claim that Intel has not tailored it's current
generation processors to mate to their assembly language.


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