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Lieven Marchand  
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 More options Mar 27 2000, 3:00 am
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From: Lieven Marchand <m...@bewoner.dma.be>
Date: 2000/03/27
Subject: Re: can lisp do what perl does easily?
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; ; ; h e l m e r . . . <assembl...@t-three.com> writes:

> If I learn lisp well will I be able to do what people do with perl, I
> know that we are not exactly comparing apples to apples since perl is a
> 'scripting' language. My hear is really in to lisp, looking for lispers'
> opinions.

You could learn both.

One of the advantages of perl is the huge CPAN archive that has a
solution to almost any problem of the kind "I need to talk to service
<foo> with protocol <bar>". Especially for one of a kind tasks I often
use a small perl script to get the data and write them out in a lisp
friendly format, and then I use CL to do the rest of the work. This
works especially fine for proof of concept things. When I see I use
one of these things regularly, I can always write an interface module
in CL.

--
Lieven Marchand <m...@bewoner.dma.be>
If there are aliens, they play Go. -- Lasker


 
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