billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) (10/05/89)
From ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning): > in the formal semantics of scheme, the abstract syntax of scheme is > _6_ lines long. and yet this language has considerably _more_ power > than ada in many respects. A Turing machine has an extremely simple set of commands, but this does not make its command set a useful programming language. The original Lisp was also quite powerful, but the lack of type-checking made it less than useful as a practical tool. Ada is intended to be a superb *production* programming language; I seriously doubt that Scheme was designed with that particular objective in mind. Followups to comp.lang.misc... Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu