OFF-TOPIC:: Why Lisp is not my favorite programming language
Tim Daneliuk
tundra at tundraware.com
Fri Mar 5 05:00:16 EST 2004
Mike Nishizawa wrote:
> These posts are like big huge neon signs that say, "I'm IGNORANT." If
> you hold that 1 language is better than all other languages, then you
> ARE ignorant. LISP is a parsing language. It's obviously not made to
> do the same things that C is. LISP is extremely fast for processing
> data files.
>
> C in not an end-all be-all of programming languages, even though it is
> quite robust. For instance, C is great if you are going to develop
> software for 1 platform. However, if you are developing software for
> multiple platforms, Java is a better choice.
>
> Really these discussions boil down to the programmer him/herself, who
> is usually the one at fault for poor performance. I'm not quite sure
> when this happened, but at some point programmers started relying on
> hardware for fast, efficient software and from that point on, the
> quality and emphasis placed on writing efficient programs has
> diminished. If you want your code to run faster, make it more
> efficient... make it use less resources... and use the right language
> for the job. Don't try to fit all things under one umbrella because
> that language has not been developed yet.
>
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