Re: New List Interpreter

Kenny <kentilton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

So the root cause for Lisp not being more popular is being too
powerful for its own good. Now I understand.

          BR,
            Vilho

> Ali wrote:
>> Here's my attempt if you want to look at a small interpreter (minus
>> parser).
>>
>>
http://code.google.com/p/lispyj/source/browse/trunk/modules/evaluation_module.js
>>
>> Wrote the library before I found out about parenscript...
>
> Boy, that really says it all, doen't? That's why Lisp as a language
> will never get anywhere. We could have a billion ants and each would
> be building its own hill. The language is too damn easy I say. Any
> other language one would be googling for days before giving up and
> reinventing parenscript, but Lisp? Noooooooooooo.
>
> Harrop may be right. if we had to wrestle with static typing and an
> opaque pattern matcher producing inscrutable matches programming would
> be the Hell it is supposed to be and we would start building a proper
> edifice of libraries.
>
> And i was doing so well with C....
>
> :(
>
> kt

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