From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0e1d3b3f7c994b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Phaedrus" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada 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 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <13t9mn08c8gtg82@corp.supernews.com> References: <13t4b2kkjem20f3@corp.supernews.com> <89af8399-94fb-42b3-909d-edf3c98d32e5@n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <53e0fda7-a536-4899-a115-9d4e137ac698@13g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <13t8avd124kno5c@corp.supernews.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20269 Date: 2008-03-09T23:53:17-08:00 List-Id: 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" wrote in message news:u7igbsaul.fsf@STRIPCAPStelus.net... > "Phaedrus" 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.