From: Robert Dober Date: 2009-08-03T17:35:06+09:00 Subject: Re: RUBY vs COMMON LISP On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > fft1976 writes: >> By the way, here is in 1 line of BF, a complete BF reader that is able >> to >> read all the BF syntax needed to write it: >> >> ,+[-.,+] >> >> Here's how to try it: >> >> $ sudo apt-get install bf >> $ cat > reader.bf >> ,+[-.,+] >> $ bf reader.bf < reader.bf >> >> Your 150 lines don't look very impressive now, do they? >> >> Ruby < Lisp <<< BF! > > I specified a syntactic reader.  Not just a reader.  READ-SEQUENCE, or > a loop on READ-CHAR is trivial both in Ruby and in Lisp. I personally think that LISP is beautiful and LISP code is ugly(1), I also believe this is not the right place to post lisp code unless all you want to do is to post lisp code. I do not recall that somebody told you this already; well we all did in indirect ways but maybe it is a good decision to tell you. And if you disagree, why not post to pastie or gist and give the link a prominent warning "LISP code ahead". On second thoughts the warning might not be necessary in your case ;) Cheers Robert (1) I am aware that ugly just means that my mind is not used to it. However this will probably hold for many folks on this list, so please forgive my somehow bold statement. R. -- module Kernel alias_method :ë, :lambda end