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> LISP's also has a long history of popping up all over the place because they are extremely implementation-friendly This is a LIE .

> LISP's also has a long history of popping up all over the place because they are extremely implementation-friendly This is a LIE . I get tired of hearing this over and over. Broken Lisps are easy to implement. Try implementing a real s-expression parser in C. I'll wait. For example, this library: http://sexpr.sourceforge.net/ takes 5000+ lines of code. And it doesn't even handle dotted pairs! (For good reason, handling dotted pairs without recursion is extremely difficult.) I have written entire languages in that number of lines. So, have many others. Lisp does not count as small.

Posted by bsder on Mar 27, 2015, 12:48 AM

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> LISP's also has a long history of popping up all over the place because they are extremely implementation-friendly This is a LIE .

bsderMar 27, 2015, 12:48 AM

> LISP's also has a long history of popping up all over the place because they are extremely implementation-friendly This is a LIE . I get tired of hearing this over and over. Broken Lisps are easy to implement. Try implementing a real s-expression parser in C. I'll wait. For example, this library: http://sexpr.sourceforge.net/ takes 5000+ lines of code. And it doesn't even handle dotted pairs! (For good reason, handling dotted pairs without recursion is extremely difficult.) I have written entire languages in that number of lines. So, have many others. Lisp does not count as small.

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