From: "Phaedrus" <phaedrusalt@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing!
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:53:17 -0800
Date: 2008-03-09T23:53:17-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13t9mn08c8gtg82@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u7igbsaul.fsf@STRIPCAPStelus.net
Rea((y, I d()n't kn()w why pe()ple can't re())d Lisp!
By the way, didja know that every year, EVERY entrant in the Lisp Obfuscated
Code contest wins? *grin* First prize is a set of new "(" and ")" keys for
their keyboards!
Brian
*Geek humor, it's not just for breakfast anymore*
"Ray Blaak" <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net> wrote in message
news:u7igbsaul.fsf@STRIPCAPStelus.net...
> "Phaedrus" <phaedrusalt@hotmail.com> writes:
>> So, what did I learn from all this? First, with rare exception you CAN
>> write darn near anything in almost any language. (I'll ignore Lisp for
>> now.) Second, I'd much rather write complicated structures in a language
>> that makes it easier to understand those structures later. (A good
>> reason
>> for ignoring Lisp. And C++, and C#, and Java and assembly and machine
>> code...) If you can't figure out what it's doing at 3am, then it's
>> probably
>> too cryptic for general use, and you'd be surprised how much of your work
>> will get done around that time.
>
> While I agree with your basic point, I think you are dead wrong about
> Lisp. If
> you cannot understand your complicated Lisp structures later, than you
> simply
> are not using it properly.
>
> In fact, in an ideal world I would rather be programming in Lisp/Scheme
> than
> any other language, including Ada. Even stronger, to me Lisp is the ideal
> pure
> computer science language, one that every other language evolves to
> emulate
> over time :-).
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers, The Rhythm is around me,
> The Rhythm has control.
> Ray Blaak The Rhythm is inside me,
> rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net The Rhythm has my soul.
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2008-03-08 6:04 Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! ME
2008-03-08 22:11 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 1:09 ` Christopher Henrich
2008-03-09 13:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 1:51 ` Phaedrus
2008-03-09 3:17 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-09 13:59 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 3:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-09 13:32 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 14:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-09 18:26 ` Phaedrus
2008-03-10 0:04 ` Ray Blaak
2008-03-10 7:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-03-10 16:48 ` Ray Blaak
2008-03-10 7:53 ` Phaedrus [this message]
2008-03-09 22:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-10 3:53 ` gpriv
2008-03-10 3:04 ` Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over Larry Kilgallen
2008-03-10 9:23 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-10 19:01 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-10 22:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-11 0:48 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-11 7:12 ` Pascal Obry
2008-03-11 8:59 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-11 9:49 ` GNAT bug, Assert_Failure at atree.adb:2893 Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-14 20:03 ` Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over Ivan Levashew
2008-03-22 21:12 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-09 8:20 ` Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! Pascal Obry
2008-03-09 9:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-03-09 12:40 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-03-09 13:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-09 14:41 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-03-10 20:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-10 22:30 ` Niklas Holsti
2008-03-10 9:56 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-11 13:58 ` george.priv
2008-03-11 15:41 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-03-12 0:32 ` gpriv
2008-03-12 13:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-12 14:41 ` gpriv
2008-03-12 15:22 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-03-13 0:34 ` gpriv
2008-03-12 16:28 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-12 17:24 ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-13 8:41 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-13 15:20 ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-12 23:54 ` gpriv
2008-03-13 9:40 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-13 10:49 ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-03-13 13:03 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2008-03-13 14:02 ` gpriv
2008-03-14 1:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-14 10:16 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2008-03-13 11:42 ` gpriv
2008-03-13 16:10 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-13 16:16 ` gpriv
2008-03-13 22:01 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-13 22:25 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-14 2:07 ` gpriv
2008-03-14 9:29 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-14 21:54 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-15 2:29 ` gpriv
2008-03-15 13:29 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-15 16:09 ` gpriv
2008-03-11 22:09 ` gpriv
2008-03-09 13:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 14:54 ` Pascal Obry
2008-03-10 21:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-11 10:12 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2008-03-22 22:43 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-26 13:49 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-26 21:27 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-27 9:31 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-27 23:10 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-28 9:51 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-28 18:12 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-28 21:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-31 7:59 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-31 13:03 ` (see below)
2008-03-31 14:17 ` (see below)
2008-04-01 9:02 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-04-01 14:12 ` (see below)
2008-04-02 7:22 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-04-02 14:59 ` (see below)
2008-04-04 6:36 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-04-04 13:56 ` (see below)
2008-04-04 17:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-04 17:40 ` (see below)
2008-04-15 12:05 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-04-17 4:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-28 6:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-04-29 7:15 ` Ivan Levashew
2008-05-01 2:03 ` Steve Whalen
2008-03-14 19:20 ` Mike Silva
2008-03-14 20:43 ` Ed Falis
2008-03-22 22:51 ` Florian Weimer
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