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- From: ad@dcs.st-and.ac.uk (Tony Davie)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.160033.9883@st-andrews.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:00:33 GMT
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- I personally like a functional language with more syntax than LISP.
- Haskell is my favourite but Miranda and ml are good too. The things I like
- about them in particular are their pattern matching and static type checking.
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- But, if you like that sort of thing, LISP's main feature is that it has a
- particularly simple syntax. Don't bugger around with it. If you want higher
- level syntax, use a syntactically higher level language, not a bastardised
- modified LISP, which isn't suited to it. It's not that sort of language.
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- Tony Davie
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