Topic: LISP vs Other languages

[Kerry]

However, the question I think suggests that if you DON'T like lisp, you wouldn't vote at all.

Interesting, as from the choices, I almost got the impression that the question was tongue-in-cheek and being posed by someone who doesn't like Lisp much.

After all, it's got choices like "I just really like parentheses" and "it's fairly unknown and cryptic".  However, there are no choices like "It has a relatively small instruction set, yet is capable of performing very powerful tasks with very little code" or "I like how a single task can be performed in many different ways" or anything like that.

Well, he did say he was bored ... I treated the poll accordingly 

[jbuzbee]

Do you remember that saying?  It was back in the Autodesk Discussion board days!  It obviously made an impression







Man, that was a long, long time ago.  Now I just feel old. 

[ArgV]

I like lists more than structures

is invalid choice

See here, for example:

http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=29356.0

[/quote]

I was more loosely referring to the fact that a function can return a list with multiple data types, similar to how you would pass a structure. This is one thing I never tried, and something that inspired the topic. That post, I just kindof browsed, looks more like the making of a class? Interesting. I gotta take more schoolin' before I get into that.

[lekside44]

what you all should realised is that LISPS is a programming lang just as c++ and java and thus will run on any computer as long as its compiler is available on the system. autocacad is a cad system that was written on the autolisps prog. lang, a strain of lisps and thus autocad has a lisps compiler in it. this is why lisps software can be run within autocad. LISPS softwares are good in the design of artificial intelligent softwares.

[hermanm]

 looks more like the making of a class? Interesting. I gotta take more schoolin' before I get into that.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/html/cltl/clm/node1.html

[curmudgeon]

I like the power and compact nature of the language. You can write an entire useful routine in 10 lines of code.

I second that. 

[Or should I say: "this". ]

Third.

confession: I am comparing Autolisp with the one and only class of FORTRAN I had in college, very little C++ (looking over my son's shoulder as he does HIS college homework), and some BASIC on a radio shack trash 80 back in high school.

 

[ArgV]

 looks more like the making of a class? Interesting. I gotta take more schoolin' before I get into that.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/html/cltl/clm/node1.html

A new one for my list of bookmarks. heh. 

[lekside44]

 i need a FORTRAN77 COMPILER AND Q BASIC COMPILER.

[MP]

i need a FORTRAN77 COMPILER AND Q BASIC COMPILER.

Can't help you out with the fortran compiler but PowerBasic probably has a compiler you can use, e.g. PowerBASIC for DOS. Tho long in the tooth nothing will beat it in the DOS BASIC compiler category IMO. Another option might be their console compiler though I'm guessing because you didn't give much to go on.

[lekside44]

can you give me the link to the download?