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- From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
- Subject: Re: Lisp syntax beauty? (was Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?)
- Message-ID: <dfs.727729181@crusher>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
- References: <1993Jan21.230642.18561@netlabs.com> <19930122162651.0.SWM@SUMMER.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> <dfs.727723285@noonian> <1jpe0qINNnf1@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:59:41 GMT
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- In <1jpe0qINNnf1@tamsun.tamu.edu> hmueller@orca.tamu.edu (Hal Mueller)
- writes:
-
- >In article <dfs.727723285@noonian> dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F.
- Skoll) writes:
-
- >>who really needs the number 394829348234982435 formatted in English words??
- >>Just try (format t "~R~%" 394829348234982435) for fun!
-
- >Well, if i DID need it, I'd hate to write it! Fortran and C versions
- >are left as an exercise.
-
- Actually, it wouldn't be too bad in C (if you can ignore the
- fixnum/bignum problems :-)) I agree that Lisp has many built-in
- conveniences. Maybe too many - we have Allegro Common Lisp on our Sun
- network, and the image is 11MB long. That's a huge overhead, and
- anyone supporting the full Common Lisp spec probably couldn't do it in
- much less.
-
- I like Lisp. I've worked on a large CAD program, and for that, Lisp
- was great. But for small-to-medium programs, I find the overhead of
- Common Lisp way too high.
-
- --
- David F. Skoll
-