What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On 2006-06-14 16:36:52 -0400, Pascal Bourguignon <pjb at informatimago.com> said:

> In lisp, all lists are homogenous: lists of T.

CL-USER 123 > (loop for elt in (list #\c 1 2.0d0 (/ 2 3)) collect 
(type-of elt))
(CHARACTER FIXNUM DOUBLE-FLOAT RATIO)

i.e., "heterogenous" in the common lisp sense: having different dynamic 
types, not in the H-M sense in which all lisp values are of the single 
union type T.