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 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!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!bigfeed3.bellsouth.net!news.bellsouth.net!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps82.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Sender: blaak@METROID Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! 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> From: Ray Blaak Message-ID: Organization: The Transcend User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:04:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 154.20.96.87 X-Trace: edtnps82 1205107477 154.20.96.87 (Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:04:37 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:04:37 MDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20265 X-Original-Bytes: 2455 Date: 2008-03-10T00:04:37+00:00 List-Id: "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.