On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 09:41 -0700, ········@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm constantly hearing that Lisp is the best computer language ever
> designed. I am particulary interested in knowing why it is better than
> Java.
> I'd like to read opinions from people using both IN THE REAL WORLD,
> day by day, in their work, not just in theory.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Fran.
http://norvig.com/java-lisp.html
http://www.flownet.com/gat/papers/lisp-java.pdf
Lisp works for me. I don't see Java as a competitor vs. Lisp, and it
isn't:
"And you're right: we were not out to win over the Lisp
programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to
drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp. Aren't you happy?"
-- Guy Steele
http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg04045.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Steele (done work on both Java and Lisp)
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http://nostdal.org/ || http://groups.google.com/group/symbolicweb