Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Apr 2004 23:57:11 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: kernel stack challenge |
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:44:48PM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote: > >5. Well known. So there would be people around who > >already know this language and expectations are clear. > >And there are books around about this language. > > LISP completely violates this requirement. While I appreciate the power > of LISP for abstraction, list processing, and how it lends itself > towards many AI-related tasks, it's not a commonly-used language.
Whether it's commonly-used or not, there's another killer problem with LISP - it's fragmented worse than even Pascal. And "which subset and extensions do we have in $IMPLEMENTATION" is worth "which language are we dealing with". Worse, actually. If you want a functional language - at least pick a well-defined one. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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