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At the rate we are going, Lisp will still be interesting in 100 years ...

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)
In reply to: Interesting languages by ncm
Parent article: 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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