From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Learning curve for common lisp Date: 1999/01/23 Message-ID: <3126050921387019@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435873799 References: <36A7E485.455B@isomedia.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * kturvey@pug1.sprocketshop.com (Kenneth P. Turvey) | The extensions to Common Lisp that make up CLOS are probably a bit | easier to understand (and more powerful) than the extensions to C that | lead to C++ (a bit of a simplification). another item on this issue is that Common Lisp benefited from CLOS in very serious ways, so now it's hardly possible to talk about Common Lisp without CLOS even when none of the CLOS features are _requested_ by the programmer, but it's still possible to talk about C without the ++, and as far as I know, none of the benefits of C++ are available unless you request those features specifically. I think this makes Common Lisp easier to understand and CLOS even less of a burden for an experienced Common Lisp programmer to learn, but as is usual, you need to discover the need before learning how to do it. #:Erik -- SIGTHTBABW: a signal sent from Unix to its programmers at random intervals to make them remember that There Has To Be A Better Way.