Jajwuth wrote:
>
> what is lisp particularly useful for as a programming language
> i have read some preamble in books but would like further information
> Al
As Richard Stallman said in an interview referred to in another thread
(see
http://www.linuxcare.com/news_columns/interviews/1999/12-14-99.epl),
"LISP is the most powerful programming language..."
Given that, Lisp is useful for just about any programming task,
but is particularly useful for those tasks that are hard in other
languages, or hard to maintain in other languages, or need to
be programmed well by a small group of people in a relatively
short time, or for programs that need to be able to be fixed
while they're running, etc....
Larry
Larry Kramer <······@stsci.edu> writes:
> for programs that need to be able to be fixed
> while they're running, etc....
that's why Common Lisp is the perfect language for server applications
with short development cycles and high uptime demands - in other words:
for the internet!
--
(espen)
Hasn't been this question asked before...?
Janos Blazi
Jajwuth <·······@aol.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
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> what is lisp particularly useful for as a programming language
> i have read some preamble in books but would like further information
> Al
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In article <··········@goliath.newsfeeds.com>, "Janos Blazi"
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>Hasn't been this question asked before...?
>
>Janos Blazi
>
It probably has but the uniqueness of this programming language begs you to ask
the question. The web site has a lot of large scale corporate type uses which
are hard to understand.
Al