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You have basically do programming to do anything anywhere. There is no magic. >>You could do all of that with Python and any programming editor. Perl is bette
by kamaal 8y ago
You have basically do programming to do anything anywhere. There is no magic.
>>You could do all of that with Python and any programming editor.
Perl is better at these text manipulation things than Python.
Lisp will be around for a lot of time than these languages. Though I expect Perl to be around too. But then vim is literally a kind of VisualPerl. Emacs feels like VisualLisp.
Before learing Elisp I was writing tons of Perl scripts to tasks like these. Perl is just insanely good at all things text. But Perl doesn't have Lisp like Macros. And eventually you realize you can weaponize Macros to all kinds of things you can't do in Perl. In short Elisp is better at a few things than Perl.
- oblio 8y ago> Lisp will be around for a lot of time than these languages. Are you sure about that? Lisp is old, and it has survived many old languages. But many of those were from the Computer Science/IT early teens age... Now CS/IT is quite mature. Mainstream languages, especially Open Source ones, will probably outlive us both. Even Perl ^.^
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> But many of those were from the Computer Science/IT early teens age... Nah, that's when the maturing process happened; what we have today is mostly middle-age crisis, running in circles with occasional small step forward. Lisp will survive because it's essentially the fundamental core of programming. When you're writing Lisp, you're essentially writing an AST. The elegance, flexibility and powerfulness of this is exactly why every new runtime that shows up gets a Lisp made for it.