[geeks] Go Apple....

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 09:34:10PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:

> Okay, I was talking about "mainstream" stuff (Fortran, COBOL, Pascal,
> C, stuff like Perl, PHP, etc).  None of those fancy-schmancy 
> CS-major cult languages that Josh Boyd likes. 8-)

There are a lot of non-CS people who swear by lisp related languages.
Like many of the engineers who learned to write it for AutoCAD
extensions, or the Psychology PhD I know who learned it for various
research projects.

If only people didn't have the idea that AI==lisp, I think we'd all be
working in Lisp now because the people who used the Lisp Machines for
non-AI tasks were doing some of the most advanced stuff in the world,
stuff that sometimes still isn't really done.  There is a reason quite
a large number of hardcore lisp people code first for Symbolics or
related machines, then port them to other environments for sale (since
it isn't practical to tell clients to go by a symbolics machines).

BTW, one of the things that really rocks about the lisp family for
niches like Cad programming, Web programming, and so on, is that they
are great for developing what are called domain specific languages.
The guy who wrote the Yahoo Stores system (it was originally his own
company that sold out to Yahoo) talks extensively about this.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd