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- From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
- Subject: Re: LISP - Don't use it.
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
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- References: <1992Nov5.014803.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <mwm.2jht@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <1992Nov6.220216.2313@sth.frontec.se> <mwm.2k43@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <1992Nov9.132635.2620@sth.frontec.se> <OAHVENLA.92Nov10004018@lk-hp-4.hut.fi> <1992Nov10.132424.28892@sth.frontec.se>
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 11:16:39 PST
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- In <1992Nov10.132424.28892@sth.frontec.se>, bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg) wrote:
- > oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi) writes:
- > > Having all operations on numbers 2 and 3 in format (oper 2 3) means
- > > that your program can easily change the operator, without having to modify
- > > the structure of the command.
- >
- > That's not powerful at all. That's just plain silly.
- > Code should be written to be: A) Easy to read. B) Easy to reuse. C) Effiecient.
- >
- > Code shouldn't be written with respect to how easily it can be altered to do a
- > completely different thing. That's not a very good purpose for your code...
-
- Please make up your mind. Either code should be easy to reuse (i.e. -
- changed for some completely different purpose), or it shouldn't.
-
- > I agree that TO THE EXPERIENCED USER, LISP can be a pretty powerful language
- > (not much more than others, though) but for beginners it's simply not a good
- > choice.
-
- So, I'll ask again - what's language available on the Amiga has
- something near the power/flexibility of a modern LISP? You called that
- question "silly" before.
-
- > This discussion arised from my plead that developers programming end user
- > Amiga applications should use another script language rather than LISP.
- > I have never claimed that people programming applications *USING* LISP should
- > quit doing so
-
- Hah. I quote:
-
- In <1992Nov10.134559.1133@sth.frontec.se>, bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg) wrote:
- > Of course. No one wants a new style of an old language. I'm not saying you
- > should alter LISP to be something else. I'm saying you should dump LISP
- > completely.
-
- Please make up your mind - either you think LISP should be dumped
- completely, or you think it should be used where it's appropriate. For
- applications not intended for end users (i.e. - programmers text
- editors), it would be perfectly appropriate as a scripting language,
- even by the criteria you stated in this posting.
-
- <mike
-
-