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- From: cgay@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Carl L. Gay)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: Lisp syntax beauty? (was Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?)
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:51:21 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: dfs@doe.carleton.ca's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:59:41 GMT
- X-Headline: DISTRAUGHT UO UNDERGRAD LOOKS UNDER SKIRT OF FORMER AI HIGH FLYER!!!
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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:59:41 GMT
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- >>who really needs the number 394829348234982435 formatted in English words??
- >>Just try (format t "~R~%" 394829348234982435) for fun!
-
- Actually, it wouldn't be too bad in C (if you can ignore the
- fixnum/bignum problems :-)) I agree that Lisp has many built-in
- conveniences. Maybe too many - we have Allegro Common Lisp on our Sun
- network, and the image is 11MB long. That's a huge overhead, and
- anyone supporting the full Common Lisp spec probably couldn't do it in
- much less.
-
- I couldn't just let this one go by. The image for Macintosh Common
- Lisp is ~1.5 MB, which includes the programming environment. (I have
- no idea why the Allegro image is so big...)
-
- I like Lisp. I've worked on a large CAD program, and for that, Lisp
- was great. But for small-to-medium programs, I find the overhead of
- Common Lisp way too high.
-