From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T05:30:47+09:00
Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham


On 06-10-02, at 15:57, Robert Dober wrote:

> On 10/2/06, Kero <kero@chello.single-dot.nl> 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."
>
>
> Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder

You could have stopped after the first two words:

Beauty lies.

--
Jeremy Tregunna
jtregunna@blurgle.ca