From: Kero <kero@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T04:50:12+09:00
Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham

> Well, considering that Paul Graham is a Lispnik, I think we can infer
> what his definitions of "powerful" and "succinct" in a programming
> language are. What would be interesting to me would be where he stands
> on the great "Common Lisp vs. Scheme" divide. Or what he thinks of
> Forth, the "other succinct and powerful language." :)
>
> Perhaps more to the point would be a comparison of Lisp, Scheme and Ruby
> as hosts for internal domain-specific languages. Didn't somebody do that
> already?

(Some fun w/ Lisp and Ruby: http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz49.html)

I once had this little conversation with a programmer tha I respect a lot:
He: "Does Ruby have closures?"
Me: "Yes"
He: "Does Ruby have continuations?"
Me: "Yes"
He: "So it's basically just Scheme, but with an uglier syntax."

I had no reply.

Bye,
Kero.