Choosing a programming language as a competitive tool
Douglas Alan
nessus at mit.edu
Sat May 5 16:21:49 EDT 2001
Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:
> But, that still doesn't teach you how to use lisp. If you approach
> it as a procedural language, you won't get anywhere.
Why not? Lisp *is* a procedural language.
> For all its bizarre syntax,, and executable line noise appearance,
> perl really is very similar to C, Pascal, Fortran, Python, etc.
That's not true -- no one would ever even think of teaching Computer
Science in Perl, while schools routinely do teach it in Lisp, C, and
Pascal. Python would also be a good language for teaching Computer
Science. (Not as good a language as Scheme, though, which is a
dialect of Lisp.)
> Lisp is a different way of doing things entirely.
Not true. Python is practically a dialect of Lisp, but with a
different syntax. Lisp *is* very different from Perl, C, Pascal, or
Fortran, though.
|>oug
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