Re: FN-FORUM: Technology Choices

date posted 9th May 2006 13:02


On 9 May 2006 12:14:40 -0000, "Anthony Cartmell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
said:
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> Lisp is a real programmer's language, simple fundamentals but a whole
> complexity of possibilites. Talk of function closures in Javascript
> reminds me of Lisp. The read-eval-print loop means that you spend all
> your
> time effectively in a debugger, with a very tight code-test-modify loop.
> Very Extreme Programming in fact.
>
On 9 May 2006 12:34:07 -0000, "Tom Allen" [EMAIL REMOVED] said:
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> I used LISP as part of a Computational Linguistics module in my degree
> to write natural-language parsers. You can do stuff in LISP with a
> few lines of code that would take mammoth amounts of programming in
> any other machine language. (Once you get used to it!)
>

Can I just put in plug?

You can do these sorts of things with Python as well. It has a nice
console for interactive development. It has an eval() function for
programmable programming. It supports lists and some. And its attracted
the attention of quite a few hard core LISPers.

Mmm, Python...

Richard
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