Account Options

  1. Sign in
The old Google Groups will be going away soon, but your browser is incompatible with the new version.
Google Groups Home
« Groups Home
Message from discussion can lisp do what perl does easily?
The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.
Your reply message has not been sent.
Your post was successful
 
From:
To:
Cc:
Followup To:
Add Cc | Add Followup-to | Edit Subject
Subject:
Validation:
For verification purposes please type the characters you see in the picture below or the numbers you hear by clicking the accessibility icon. Listen and type the numbers you hear
 
Espen Vestre  
View profile  
 More options Mar 27 2000, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Espen Vestre <espen@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net>
Date: 2000/03/27
Subject: Re: can lisp do what perl does easily?

Joe Marshall <jmarsh...@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> Depends on what you want to do with your life.  The largest
> `advantage' that Perl has over Lisp is the huge amount of CGI scripts
> written in Perl.  If you want to write and maintain scripts, it is
> unlikely that you will find many written in Lisp, and if you write
> scripts in Lisp, you may find it hard to get people to adopt them.

if you already know lisp (and thus already at least one other
language), it's nothing wrong with learning perl, though. Perl is
pretty impressing in its text-processing speed, and is a quite useful
tool as long as you don't start to write real programs with it.

Ignore the members of the perl-worshipping community who might say
otherwise and let perl do what it's good at: Quick (& dirty) scripting.
Perl is a good substitute for awk, sed and sh, but not lisp!

--
  (espen)


 
You must Sign in before you can post messages.
To post a message you must first join this group.
Please update your nickname on the subscription settings page before posting.
You do not have the permission required to post.