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I remember when the OP came into the CL community and it was not long after myself, and we both came long after is hey day. I dare say that not many in the com
by Guthur 6y ago
I remember when the OP came into the CL community and it was not long after myself, and we both came long after is hey day.
I dare say that not many in the community are from some bygone time.
The fact is CL has by far and away a more sophisticated runtime environment than the vast majority of dynamic languages, with small talk being a stand out exception.
Some of the language aesthetics have not aged well, not talking parenthesis but rather the hideously long symbol names.
- drmeister 6y agoAgreed! There are a couple of really clever xkcd comics about this (google: xkcd lisp). And I also would rather use PATH than default-pathname-defaults and logical pathnames are, uh, crufty. But I see these as minor blemishes on what I think is as close to a perfect programming language as I have seen. Clasp is an implementation of Common Lisp and any differences between what it does and what the standard says is a bug in Clasp that we need to fix. But Cando, Clasp+computational chemistry code, is a superset of Common Lisp and we are adding things to make life a bit more convenient. We even added optional infix arithmetic as a standard part of Cando (I know! I'm going to burn in hell between the ninth nested set of parentheses as a heretic).
- scns 6y agoThe last sentence painted a big smile on my face