I'm not a lisper myself, but I thought i should ask you. I have just read the wikipedia article on Common Lisp that describes lots of features. Particularly, the inclusion of an ENTERPRISE object-oriented paradigm and some macro syntax that looks like valid perl code.
So, is ((SCHEME)) better?
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Anonymous2008-04-26 22:00
Not sure what you're asking, but Scheme is an academic toy language, so no it is not better than CL. At least CL is trying to be somewhat useful for doing real work (solving the 8 queens problem or writing recursive fibonacci is not real work.)
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Anonymous2008-04-26 22:09
No. Java is better. No bloat there.
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Anonymous2008-04-26 22:19
>>2
I mean, I like the idea of "syntax = parentheses", or almost that.
But.. real work it's very wide. IMHO you can can do anything with proper libraries/bindings.
How complex would be the bindings for, say, gtk? Yeah, the syntax would become more underscores than parentheses, but you'll be doing more than printing to stdout