From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Can I use Lisp? Date: 2000/11/05 Message-ID: <3182419942547827@naggum.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 689928668 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <16savskpras2on0vjcfmq2km962sbtcian@4ax.com> <8t44r6$3pc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3181391107929417@naggum.net> <3181477127456574@naggum.net> <8t7ecv$tir$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3181518131621435@naggum.net> <8t9d55$f3k$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <9dlgvskf0q2aia8hlitt6e5jja8a3vuji7@4ax.com> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 973438397 19434 195.0.192.66 (5 Nov 2000 15:33:17 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Nov 2000 15:33:17 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Hallvard B Furuseth | - Then to try to compete with Perl for hackers; at least set up | something like CPAN and some widely published regexp utilities. expressions is just the wrong tool for the job -- it is right in Perl because Perl is very, very heavily optimized for them so few other approaches make sense, including Common Lisp. If we even try to mimic Perl on the regular expression front, we have a loser. Perl is about doing something that saves the day. Common Lisp is about doing something that saves the month or the year. It may take just as long to write, but that's the perspective difference. #:Erik ------- //--> honored meaning of excellent coders with a passion. It is probably not the mass media meaning. -- Does anyone remember where I parked Air Force One? -- George W. Bush