Choosing a programming language as a competitive tool

[John J. Lee]

On 5 May 2001, Douglas Alan wrote:

> "Andrew Dalke" <dalke at acm.org> writes:
[...]
> practical.  If you'd read a good book on practical programming in Lisp
> (I don't know if there are any), then you'd probably feel differently.
[...]

Not really 'proper' lisp, but there are several practical works on elisp
(emacs lisp).  I've only skimmed through them so can't comment on quality,
but they're certainly practical, and the language isn't quite as
narrow-focused as you might expect.


John