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Not sure if it's sarcasm or not...

Not sure if it's sarcasm or not...

Posted Nov 18, 2011 8:35 UTC (Fri) by deepfire (subscriber, #26138)
In reply to: Not sure if it's sarcasm or not... by khim
Parent article: Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum (LinuxFr.org)

>> Extra points for Lisp being called a "pointless complication".

> Sure, there are things which Lisp does better and simpler then other
> solutions. But when you try to shoehorn the whole world in Lisp -
> this is pointless complication.

Have you experienced a Lisp machine environment?

You judge things so easily..


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Not sure if it's sarcasm or not...

Posted Nov 19, 2011 3:18 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Mentioning it doesn't really bring anything.. it's already been mentioned.

If you have relevant information as to why lisp machines really were a great approach, offering something that other solutions that won cannot provide, especially in a practical way... by all means do share it.

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