From: Oleg
Subject: Lispy C++ libraries
Date: 
Message-ID: <agpc1l$dvm$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
Hi

I have a question for Lisp programmers who also use C++. Do you use any 
"Lispy" C++ libraries or STL/BOOST objects to adapt the language to your 
way of thinking?

Thanks,
Oleg
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From: John Wiseman
Subject: Re: Lispy C++ libraries
Date: 
Message-ID: <m2ofd8c2df.fsf@server.local.lemon>
Oleg <············@myrealbox.com> writes:

> I have a question for Lisp programmers who also use C++. Do you use
> any "Lispy" C++ libraries or STL/BOOST objects to adapt the language
> to your way of thinking?

No.  When there is a common C++ idiom for doing something I want to
do, I use it.  I let my experience with Lisp inspire some design, but
it's important to me that C++ programmers without Lisp experience will
not think of the code as too foreign.

Sometimes there is convergence.  I think the STL shows signs of being
designed by someone that knew Lisp.  And when a domain becomes complex
enough, I can see Lisp becoming more than just an inspiration for
design.


John Wiseman
From: Aleksandr Skobelev
Subject: Re: Lispy C++ libraries
Date: 
Message-ID: <m3vg7gdoc6.fsf@list.ru>
To be more precise, it was Scheme. 
(See http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html)


John Wiseman <·········@yahoo.com> writes:

[...]

> I think the STL shows signs of being designed by someone that knew
> Lisp.

[...]
From: Paolo Amoroso
Subject: Re: Lispy C++ libraries
Date: 
Message-ID: <LyY0PWFBQA2Lp9s1s4U91cHn6bJy@4ax.com>
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:44:32 GMT, John Wiseman <·········@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Sometimes there is convergence.  I think the STL shows signs of being
> designed by someone that knew Lisp.  And when a domain becomes complex

Wasn't STL inspired to analogous work done in Ada, possibly by Booch?


Paolo
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From: Matt Curtin
Subject: Re: Lispy C++ libraries
Date: 
Message-ID: <86n0soka55.fsf@rowlf.interhack.net>
Oleg <············@myrealbox.com> writes:

> I have a question for Lisp programmers who also use C++. Do you use
> any "Lispy" C++ libraries or STL/BOOST objects to adapt the language
> to your way of thinking?

You might want to try Lisp Plus Plus by William Paul Vrotney.
http://www.interhack.net/projects/lpp/

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