From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile." Date: 16 Oct 2002 18:13:32 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3243780812018665@naggum.no> References: <44d4f61c.0210140635.c78df51@posting.google.com> <44d4f61c.0210142111.af50c27@posting.google.com> <3243680935954446@naggum.no> <87y98zr8pp.fsf@harris.sdo.us.ray.com> <3243694824668424@naggum.no> <3243708171567859@naggum.no> <87k7kjqn0s.fsf@harris.sdo.us.ray.com> <3243717585684194@naggum.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1034792012 20838 129.240.65.5 (16 Oct 2002 18:13:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Oct 2002 18:13:32 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:44064 * Thomas F. Burdick | Out of curiosity, have you used Java much? Not for production purposes. I do not think I will want to do that. I would rather hire cheap programmers who can write Java code than do it myself, but I actually believe it is a good language for its purposes and I have read a lot on Java. I want to program in Common Lisp, not Java, myself, but if I were to hire a bunch of people to get something done, I would want them to use something that was not braindamaged like C++ and which I could be reasonably sure was not all buggy like C programs are. | Maybe the Java way is a worse fit to my brain than it is to most peoples, | but I find the standard libraries sometimes get in the way to the extent | that it might be easier to just reimplement what I want in a less-crazy | manner. Well, people should not use tools that do not fit the way they think. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.