From: Dave Goggin
Subject: Lisp waves continue!
Date:
Message-ID: <8497@hub.ucsb.edu>
I have done lisp myself, and I would say that is ti
by no means 'dead' In fact, it is one of the best
languages that i have ever used. And, being an
inperpreted anguage, it is pretty amazing what a
good interpreter can do in terms of speed.
It is the prerequisite to the AI class here, and of
all the langauges that i have used, it is the most
intelligent, and able to respond to what I want
without the ususal programming hassles of decalring
variables, etc, that are common in other languages.
It is more human than C, Assembler, pascal, etc.
And I am totally hooked on lisp.
LISP IS NOT DEAD OR DYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
we must stop this talk!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can't we fill this newsgroup with more profundities
than this???????????????????
*dt*
In article <····@hub.ucsb.edu> ······@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Dave Goggin) writes:
>I have done lisp myself, and I would say that is ti
>by no means 'dead' In fact, it is one of the best
>languages that i have ever used. And, being an
>inperpreted anguage, it is pretty amazing what a
>good interpreter can do in terms of speed.
Bear in mind that Lisp isn't always interpreted; often it's compiled.
Indeed, some Lisps (e.g. PopLog Common Lisp) don't have an interpreter
at all. Code is always compiled (even when EVAl is called). But for
this to work well, the compiler must be fairly fast.
N.B. There is a similar confusion about Basic.