C++ vs Lisp
janderson
askme at me.com
Sat May 17 13:08:15 PDT 2008
Walter Bright wrote:
> An oldie, but some very thought provoking observations on what makes
a language productive:
>
>
http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~irenelg/courses/330/CTM/Resources/C++-vs-Lisp.txt
I wonder how D would perform? It looks like D could be as almost as
streamlined as lisp with its built-in containers.
It seems to me though that size of a program isn't everything. As you
said before, repetition helps reduce errors. I think D provides better
mechanisms for abstraction then lisp. I think that D allows one to work
on much larger problems more effectively then lisp. I think there in
lies the trade off.
If/when D gains functional programming it will have the best of both worlds.
-Joel
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