There is a notion that before attempting to make something new it is useful to take a look at the best of the stuff already done.

Naturally Lisp falls into the category of such `best' things to use as inspirational material/feature reference.

So the question is -- what are your (as a community) reflexions about Lisp?

(this is a crosspost from the old D newsgroup)

Amazing Language and very flexible.

Cons: Large runtime.
Good systems are expensive (Allegro, LispWorks)
"Samium Gromoff" <Samium_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message
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> There is a notion that before attempting to make something new it is useful to take a look at the best of the stuff already done.
>
> Naturally Lisp falls into the category of such `best' things to use as inspirational material/feature reference.
>
> So the question is -- what are your (as a community) reflexions about
Lisp?
>
> (this is a crosspost from the old D newsgroup)
>
>

>There is a notion that before attempting to make something new it is useful to take a look at the best of the stuff already done.
>
>Naturally Lisp falls into the category of such `best' things to use as inspirational material/feature reference.

Hmm, LISP is a dynamicaly typed language that offers a mix between functional
and implerativ programming.
D is a staticaly typed language imperativ lanaguage.


>So the question is -- what are your (as a community) reflexions about Lisp?

?

Samium Gromoff wrote:
> There is a notion that before attempting to make something new it is  useful to take a look at the best of the stuff already done.  
> 
> Naturally Lisp falls into the category of such `best' things to use  as inspirational material/feature reference.  
> 
> So the question is -- what are your (as a community) reflexions about Lisp?  
> 
> (this is a crosspost from the old D newsgroup) 
> 
> 
Lisp is the most programmable programming language(to quote Paul Graham  www.paulgraham.com ).

I think a version of Scheme in D would be a good project.  Perhaps porting a Java package such as JScheme (www.norvig.com)

Samium Gromoff wrote:
> There is a notion that before attempting to make something new it is  useful to take a look at the best of the stuff already done.  
> 
> Naturally Lisp falls into the category of such `best' things to use  as inspirational material/feature reference.  
> 
> So the question is -- what are your (as a community) reflexions about Lisp?  
> 
> (this is a crosspost from the old D newsgroup) 

I think that Lisp is theoretically more interesting than practically.

Lisp tends - like C++ - to support multiple paradigmas and so fails to
give a straightforward framework to think and program within.

Lisp environments tend to be monolythical big things, like Smalltalk,
Java, C#. Exactly the opposite of what D aims to be.

Good Lisp implementations tend to be expensive for commercial use.

In total: Lisp is good, Lisp will remain in a niche market, Lisp had
its chance and its place in history.

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:58:33 +0000 (UTC), Samium Gromoff <Samium_member@pathlink.com> wrote:

> So the question is -- what are your (as a community) reflexions about Lisp?

The better Lisp: www.rebol.com

-- 
Robert M. Münch
Management & IT Freelancer
http://www.robertmuench.de

Robert M. Münch wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:58:33 +0000 (UTC), Samium Gromoff  <Samium_member@pathlink.com> wrote:
> 
>> So the question is -- what are your (as a community) reflexions about  Lisp?
> 
> 
> The better Lisp: www.rebol.com
> 
Nope.  Rebol is a langauge being maintained by one company, and they're keeping it secret.  That won't be a viable contender as a useable language for anything serious until there is at least a second source, and preferable a GPL fork.

OTOH, if you like that, you might give Logo a look.  Several variants of that exist.