>>1 "Plan 9 Front" by Bell Labs.
"Plan 9 has been forked to start a development out of the Bell Labs
This is going to die in a few weeks. Cirno as mascotte made me laugh.
>>20
1.speed,less memory
2.can be understood without deciphering syntax
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Anonymous2011-07-18 5:04
>>21 can be understood without deciphering syntax
you forgot "be people who already know C"
Lisp is easier syntax to understand than C for people who have never seen code before.
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Anonymous2011-07-18 5:04
forking everything you come across because you're too immature to contribute
sure is 12 year olds in here
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Anonymous2011-07-18 5:10
>>22
No, its not like that. Lisp has context variations, cryptic macros and self-modifying code which cannot be "read" but has to be deduced from evaluating the entire program. C code can be read, even if heavily obfuscated, the structure cannot be hidden and can be evaluated piece by piece.
For example, your argument doesn't hold water for Scheme, where meaning is always lexically visible. (or at least is by convention.)
Also your argument doesn't hold on the other side for C++, which has more keywords than just about any language AND the ability to have understood environments via the this pointer and "using"
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Anonymous2011-07-18 6:32
>>25
I don't normally abuse C++ features since they just add bloat and lower performance
>>30
It's only ``write-only'' if you can't read your own code. Lisp code tends to be rather self-explanatory, I usually understand my own and other people's with a lot of ease. It can slightly more difficult if someone decides to make up their own syntax, but luckily this feature is not abused by many. You should write your code to be understandable first and runnable second.
>>42
Plan 9 has had a Haskell implementation for years, in addition to ML and Ocaml, all without GCC. Of course there is a GCC port, but no-one uses it.