From: Marc Wachowitz
Subject: Re: Where can I find *solid* Lisp documentation, syntax or sample code?
Date:
Message-ID: <62vkjk$6oa$1@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de>
Erik Naggum <······@naggum.no> wrote:
> make a point that Lisp is a language that likes to sit above the operating
> system, not a language like C that makes "executables" that are placed
> beside the operating system, just like the endless row of other utilities.
If you put that into some kind of general document, this point should be
more precise. "Lisp" is a family of languages, and traditionally frequently
has an integrated development environment - which in the case of ANSI
Common Lisp is even a standardized part of the language. Nevertheless,
there are also dialects of Lisp where this isn't the case, and which can
easily be implemented similarly to e.g. traditional C compilers. For
example, the programming languages Scheme and EuLisp by themselves don't
demand any form of integrated development environment - there are indeed
implementations of Scheme working as batch compilers - and R4RS does also
remark that "Scheme would still be useful as a notation for expressing
computational methods even in the absence of a mechanical implementation".
-- Marc Wachowitz <··@ipx2.rz.uni-mannheim.de>