Henry Baker (hbaker@netcom.com) wrote:
: You make a good point about the importance of environments. That's precisely
: the advantage of Lisp. You get a uniform picture of the world -- everything
: is Lisp. You don't have to know anything about machine language, assemblers,
: linkers, and all plethora of itty bitty 'tools' with <3-character names.
: You have the same language for writing macros, the same language for writing
: system code, the same language for writing scripts, the same language for
: writing editor extensions, the same language for interacting with windows,
: etc.
I think this is what was responsible for the diminishing influence
of Lisp... It's all-or-nothing, violating the principle "interoperate
or die."
Mark.
(PS, I like lisp)
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