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Re: Programming languages (was: Greetings: Me & Linux)



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From: Chen Shapira <chen@mercury.co.il>
>
>
> > Because he probably will have to maintain his code, but why not lisp?
> > ;-)
>
> If anyone is interested in hearing why Lisp is a great language and
> shouldn't be ridiculed - I'd just love to lecture on the matter :-)
>
> (that wasn't a flame, was it?)

Lisp & Scheme are great language 4 some tasks, but 4 some it just sucks.

> I'll just add that no language should be judged by its syntax alone.

Syntax is very importent to a language, and in lisp it looks like
(((((((((())))))))))

> Regards,
>
> Chen Shapira
> The fractal flowers and recursive roots
> the most lovely hack I've seen

Bye, rilel


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Ilya 'rilel' Khayutin - Jerusalem, Israel
SmartSystems' Project Coordinator
The World City Project Core Developer and Deisgner

e-mail: rilel@yahoo.com
Project: http://smartsystems.sourceforge.net
URL: http://rilel.homepage.com



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