Lisp certainly can handle numerics (was: lisp is winner in DOM parsing contest! 8-])

From: Cameron Laird (claird_at_lairds.us)
Date: 07/12/04


Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:06:23 GMT

In article <2le3nlFb82reU1@uni-berlin.de>,
Alex Mizrahi <udodenko@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>so lisp is winner.. but it has not standard way (even no non-standard but
>simple) way to write binary IEEE floating point representation, so common
>lisp suck and i will use c++ for my task.. 8-]]]
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I'm having trouble following this thread. In isolation, though,
this claim *can't* be true. Is there a particular Lisp implemen-
tation you have in mind?



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