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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea8ea502d35ca2ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 103d24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid103d24,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 10259a,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid10259a,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-15 04:56:42 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!62.46.247.141!not-for-mail From: a.krennmair@aon.at (Andreas Krennmair) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Beginner's Language? Date: 15 May 2001 11:56:35 GMT Organization: Church Of Tux Message-ID: <9dr5hi$jeh5f$1@ID-37382.news.dfncis.de> References: <9cukad$nn68@news-dxb> <9ddhll$b8o@goaway.cc.monash.edu.au> <9dq2mr$8bduv$1@fido.engr.sgi.com> Reply-To: a.krennmair@aon.at NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.46.247.141 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 989927795 20399279 62.46.247.141 (16 [37382]) X-Orig-Path: a.krennmair X-Signature-Color: green X-Registered-Linux-User: 142096 X-Die-wahre-Distro: Debian X-Signature-License: GPL User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7515 comp.lang.lisp:10074 comp.lang.smalltalk:9681 comp.lang.functional:5651 comp.lang.scheme:3820 comp.lang.perl:2753 Date: 2001-05-15T11:56:35+00:00 List-Id: Rob Warnock wrote: > And since this thread included a considerable amount of Lisp/Scheme-bashing > because the syntax isn't "natural" (by some opinions), one more excerpt: > > Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are > intrinsically doomed to fail. And that's what Lisp does, according to Paul Foley. He expressed the sentence "My girlfriend's name is Suzy and her age is 17" in Lisp via (and (name (girlfriend me) Suzy) (age her 17)) To quote him: "and there you have it -- a perfect representation of natural language!" ergo: Lisp is intrinsically doomed to fail. Regards, Andreas Krennmair -- Find bad web sites 8x faster." -- Motorola ISDN modem ad