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Revenge of the Nerds (These are your father's parentheses) | 111 comments | Create New Account

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Revenge of the Nerds (These are your father's parentheses)

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 23 2012 @ 07:42 PM EDT

I only dabble in Python; can someone explain how it is more like Lisp than
Perl?

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

This is the family of interpreted languages

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 23 2012 @ 07:48 PM EDT

All of these languages are designed to be interpreted first,
compiled maybe (but only partially). Like LISP before them,
they don't excel at speed and precision, but at alleged
"ease of use" (for throw away tasks and bad programmers).

Java even had a short blooming of hardware-mostly machines,
just like LISP had 15 years earlier.

And sure, some important projects came from people in love
with those platforms (GNU, Eliza, SAX, Mobile code in
browsers).

As a rule of thumb, languages with a source-code-
understanding "eval" function and/or a complete "reflection"

feature and/or typeless variables generally belong to this
category. Those 3 are the most common pieces of oversize
baggage that prevent languages from producing anything
resembling full speed efficient programs for non-crippled
hardware of its age.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

LISP speed is just as fast (if not a bit faster) - Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 02:31 AM EDT

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