From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T00:55:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Lisp in Ruby?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Pine" <nemo@hellotree.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: Lisp in Ruby?


> http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html
>
> It's kind of like Lisp written backwards, and without any parenthases.  It
> looks pretty cool to me.  Doesn't seem like it ever caught on, though.

I'll check that out. If I had invented a backwards Lisp, I'd have
called it Psil. ;) Maybe short for "Parentheses Still Infect Lisp."

> Uh... why do you think it would be so tricky?  Languages like Lisp are
known
> for their simple interpreters, I thought.  I would have guessed you could
> just subclass Array and call it LispList or something, add a few
methods...
> but, like I said, I don't really understand Lisp yet (or Joy, though I
think
> it looks much more interesting, at least on the surface), so maybe I just
> don't know what I'm talking about.

Actually, I'm probably the one who doesn't know what he's
talking about. :) And my post was 66% in jest anyway, so
just ignore it.

Cheers,
Hal