From: "Zed A. Shaw" Date: 2006-10-03T05:06:01+09:00 Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 04:50:12 +0900 Kero wrote: > > 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. Oh, that's easy: "Any language that ends nearly every function definition with the line: ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) does NOT win the International Code Beauty Award." -- Zed A. Shaw, MUDCRAP-CE Master Black Belt Sifu http://www.zedshaw.com/ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 -- Come get help.