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- From: jimc@tekcae.cax.tek.com (Jim Carden)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?
- Message-ID: <1866@tekgen.bv.tek.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:07:19 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.181244.8680@netlabs.com> <19930120191159.1.SWM@SUMMER.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> <1993Jan21.230642.18561@netlabs.com>
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- In article <1993Jan21.230642.18561@netlabs.com> lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) writes:
- >In article <19930120191159.1.SWM@SUMMER.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> SWM@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com (Scott McKay) writes:
- >: In what way is Lisp "bland ... all the way through"?
- >
- >There's little visual distinctiveness to distinguish mentally
- >distinctive constructs.
-
- Written by the designer of Perl. Well, Perl certainly cannot be accused of being bland.
-
- To each his own, I guess. I cannot disagree more with almost everything Larry Wall
- has written on this subject. As far as syntax goes, LISP and Perl are about as far apart
- as they can be (and I hope LISP does not budge).
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