Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: 27 Mar 2026 21:13:09 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <10ojmjv$2ashr$1@dont-email.me> <10q03vf$1o2ev$1@dont-email.me> <10q0c18$1qua9$1@dont-email.me> <10q0f40$1s10c$1@dont-email.me> <10q1etr$9gh8$1@artemis.inf.ed.ac.uk> <10q2o3v$nqm7$1@news1.tnib.de> <10q3kgr$2val0$1@dont-email.me> <1774547182-12588@newsgrouper.org> <87a4vuw71u.fsf@parhasard.net> <10q5mv8$3kugt$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net TFtH3x253zP6WtcTeOLD5gWsnIBtleUvmU6Fg0Ml9n5pZwblUk Cancel-Lock: sha1:lPJ8I2kxBVeIZPR4hgd9+itDc7I= sha256:PuPzuBcUhCJEa2Z5GpnEM8SCp/W1uboJVpn2ACvtzJo= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84215 alt.usage.english:1141154 On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:42:48 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 27/03/2026 04:00, rbowman wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:38:05 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote: >> >>> If the Common Lisp ecosystem met my needs I would use SBCL for almost >>> everything, but I’m stuck with C and Emacs Lisp and nudging everything >>> in the latter more to Common Lisp. >> >> My only exposure to a Lisp adjacent language was Scheme and that was >> when I worked my way through 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer >> Programs' one winter. The concepts were interesting but my impression >> was 'Why in the name for the Flying Spaghetti Monster would anyone ever >> do it that way?' >> >> > My feelings about FORTH. > > Incredibly clever,. reasonably fast and memory efficient, but oh > my...maintainable? I don't think Moore ever claimed it was maintainable. Job security. TILs are conceptually simple compared to Scheme.