At the rate we are going, Lisp will still be interesting in 100 years ...
Posted Feb 7, 2006 0:25 UTC (Tue) by
brugolsky (subscriber, #28)
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Interesting languages by ncm
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Interview with Samantha Kleinberg on CL-GODB, Common Lisp & Bioinformatics
Better type systems, lazy evaluation, calculi of every variety -- all of these things are great, and can be simulated in Lisp with varying degrees of effort. Meanwhile, every newfangled language seems to end up with some meta-programming front-end that looks half-baked compared the Lisp family.
Been there before with Prolog. Prolog has some interesting features; those features are readily implemented in a Lispi library.
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