6600dt@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Dave Goggin) (01/26/91)
I have done lisp myself, and I would say that is ti by no means 'dead' In fact, it is one of the best languages that i have ever used. And, being an inperpreted anguage, it is pretty amazing what a good interpreter can do in terms of speed. It is the prerequisite to the AI class here, and of all the langauges that i have used, it is the most intelligent, and able to respond to what I want without the ususal programming hassles of decalring variables, etc, that are common in other languages. It is more human than C, Assembler, pascal, etc. And I am totally hooked on lisp. LISP IS NOT DEAD OR DYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 we must stop this talk!!!!!!!!!!!!! can't we fill this newsgroup with more profundities than this??????????????????? *dt*
jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) (01/28/91)
In article <8497@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600dt@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Dave Goggin) writes: >I have done lisp myself, and I would say that is ti >by no means 'dead' In fact, it is one of the best >languages that i have ever used. And, being an >inperpreted anguage, it is pretty amazing what a >good interpreter can do in terms of speed. Bear in mind that Lisp isn't always interpreted; often it's compiled. Indeed, some Lisps (e.g. PopLog Common Lisp) don't have an interpreter at all. Code is always compiled (even when EVAl is called). But for this to work well, the compiler must be fairly fast. N.B. There is a similar confusion about Basic.