"phil hunt" wrote in message
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On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 08:01:52 -0000, Keith Willshaw
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"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
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ess (phil hunt) wrote:



:Usingn the right
rogramming tools is important, for example the right lasnguasge or
more likely) set of languages. On which lanugages to use, Paul
:Graham's essays on language design, and the way Lisp makes it easy
:for you to in effect write your own specialised language for the job
:in hand, are apposite.

Again, this is wonderful until someone has to enhance or maintain the
result. EVERY effort written in a 'one-off' special purpose language?
Ugh!

He wants to use lisp for real time software !

No, he merely thinks Lisp's macro system has advantages, when trying
to solve hard problems.


And some nasty disadvantages which is why it has somewhat
fallen out of favour.

Keith