On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:34:57PM +0100, Mark Carter wrote:
This is not a troll, honest, so please bear with me ...
It struck me that Lisp was, perhaps, the Ultimate Programming Language, the One True Language to rule them all; except that I always kept abandoning it for one reason or another (fiddly installation, lack of libraries, compatability problems, cost, possible license issues, etc.). My current foray in Haskell seems encouraging. wxHaskell installed a breeze, and seems quite usable (even though I'm a raw n00b to the language, and admittedly haven't grokked the semantics, and all this cid:part1.01000702.09000407@yahoo.co.uk IO a -> IO () business). On the one hand, it seems kinda academic, but on the other, it looks like it wants to be practical, too.
Bearing this in mind, and hoping you can see where I'm coming from, I think my question is: shouldn't you guys be using Lisp?
Given the words above, I wonder why the question is this way around :) --
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