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From: Duane Rettig on 22 Apr 2008 11:43 pjb(a)informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > Scott Burson <FSet.SLB(a)gmail.com> writes: > >> Just came across this... >> >> http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/21/bray_ruby_rails/ >> >> You'd think there would be some way for Lisp to fill this gap. > > Well, lisp is a meta-programming programming language. Could the > problems with Ruby be that it hasn't been implemented in Lisp? > > After all, all these P* languages, Php, Perls, Python, Ruby, Java, > they're all nice domain specific programming language (even if some > users have strange syntactic tastes). The shame is that they've not > been developed in lisp. Then they'd benefit of the lisp compiler and > run-time compiler. > > Lisp advocates shouldn't try to convince the programmers using these > programming languages, but the programmers who design and implement > these programming languages. Or perhaps become implementors of those languages themselves: http://common-lisp.net/project/clpython/ > ;-) > > -- > __Pascal Bourguignon__ -- Duane Rettig duane(a)franz.com Franz Inc. http://www.franz.com/ 555 12th St., Suite 1450 http://www.555citycenter.com/ Oakland, Ca. 94607 Phone: (510) 452-2000; Fax: (510) 452-0182
From: ddd on 22 Apr 2008 14:59 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:19:35 +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb(a)informatimago.com> wrote: > After all, all these P* languages, Php, Perls, Python, Ruby, Java, > they're all nice domain specific programming language (even if some > users have strange syntactic tastes). The shame is that they've not > been developed in lisp. Then they'd benefit of the lisp compiler and > run-time compiler. > Php in Scheme: http://code.roadsend.com/pcc > Lisp advocates shouldn't try to convince the programmers using these > programming languages, but the programmers who design and implement > these programming languages. > > > ;-) >
From: Ken Tilton on 22 Apr 2008 15:52 Scott Burson wrote: > Just came across this... > > http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/21/bray_ruby_rails/ > > You'd think there would be some way for Lisp to fill this gap. http://gitorious.org/projects/hunchncells hth, kenny -- http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/ http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/ "I've never read the rulebook. My job is to catch the ball." -- Catcher Josh Bard after making a great catch on a foul ball and then sliding into the dugout, which by the rules allowed the runners to advance one base costing his pitcher a possible shutout because there was a runner on third base. "My sig is longer than most of my articles." -- Kenny Tilton
From: Tim Bradshaw on 22 Apr 2008 18:16 On Apr 22, 4:32 pm, Christophe <christophe.allegr...(a)birdtechnology.net> wrote: > I am not sure that "Java have eclipsed Common Lisp". > I'm guessing you misunderstood what I was saying: Java has eclipse CL in the "language most people think is slow when actually it's the grotesquely awful code people write in it" field, this being distinct from any other one. Apologies if you did understand me.
From: Tim Bradshaw on 22 Apr 2008 18:17
On Apr 22, 2:19 pm, p...(a)informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > After all, all these P* languages, Php, Perls, Python, Ruby, Java, > they're all nice domain specific programming language The domain of Perl being "world domination". |