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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.727732459@kehleyr>
- 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> <1jpi0sINN47q@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:54:19 GMT
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- In <1jpi0sINN47q@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> gat@forsight2.jpl.nasa.gov (Erann
- Gat) writes:
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- >(You seem to be complaining about two orthogonal issues, by
- >the way, the syntax of format strings and their functionality.
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- You are right. I wrote my article hastily. But the "format" function
- is representative of one aspect of Common Lisp which I believe
- prevents it from becoming a "mainstream" language - Common Lisp
- attempts to do almost everything, with the result that 90% of the Lisp
- image is devoted to functions a small-to-medium program will never use.
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- And people have been arguing that Lisp is a very good general
- purpose language. A function that prints English names of numbers
- is a pretty special-purpose function!
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- David F. Skoll
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