Zach Beane  <xach@xach.com> wrote:
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| George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> writes:
| > I like Lisp - but let's be honest - Lisp doesn't make bit munging
| > easy.  Nor does any modern statically typed language I have tried.
| 
| I've heard many Lisp people say this (usually with the same disclaimer),
| but I don't find it to be true personally. The same things that make
| Lisp great for programming in general also make it great for me to do
| whatever bit munging I need.
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Ditto!

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| What sort of bit munging do you have in mind when you say this?
| What do you think of Rob Warnock's public adventures in bit munging?
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Heh. I just made a parallel reply with some more toy examples...  ;-}


-Rob

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