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>"Lisp, of course, and especially Common Lisp are my languages. Not since the 1960s have I programmed professionally in a language other than Lisp." > With all
by anamax 17y ago
>"Lisp, of course, and especially Common Lisp are my languages. Not since the 1960s have I programmed professionally in a language other than Lisp."
> With all due respect to Richard Gabriel, (and this probably blasphemy) perhaps he should? Haskell or Erlang or Factor are mind expanding in ways Common Lisp never was.
The fact that Gabriel hasn't "programmed professionally" in those languages does not imply that he doesn't know them.
- plinkplonk 17y ago"The fact that Gabriel hasn't "programmed professionally" in those languages does not imply that he doesn't know them." Fair enough but it doesn't mean that he does either, at least to a high enough degree where he can make an unbiased comparison to CL. And his writing on this essay (which in my opinion is a rather incoherent and wandering paean of praise for lisp vs a strawman Java) seems to indicate he doesn't.
- lispm 17y agoRichard P. Gabriel lost his Lisp business when he invested in creating a new C++ development environment and used his existing Lisp business to get some money for that. He spend a lot of time & money into getting this C++ thing going - not as a programmer, but as a boss of a software company. That's also why Lucid Emacs got forked - which then became XEmacs.