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Nick Dimiduk wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> Yes. There're at least four Gentoo users *that I know personally* who |
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>> will be using this. So far as I know, I've never met anyone who uses |
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>> clisp on Gentoo. |
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> I use clisp on Gentoo, though we've never met. |
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I use clisp ... and cmucl and sbcl and gcl and guile. And sometimes |
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Java. And often Fortran. And *all* on Gentoo. I use LISP for things LISP |
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is good at, R for things R is good at, Perl for things Perl is good at, |
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etc. And I'd use A Plus for things it's good at if you had it in Portage! |
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I took a look at "the language with the name offensive to some". It's a |
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toy language -- an undergrad or maybe even high school computer science |
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exercise. If all I had to work with was an Altair or a KIM-1, I'd sure |
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experiment with it. It has exactly one thing going for it -- compactness. |
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Well, guess what -- I have a Pentium III and an Athlon T-Bird, and there |
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is at least one *real* computer language just as compact -- FORTH -- |
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represented in Portage by "gforth". IIRC the Vim syntax coloring for |
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FORTH is already in place. As a matter of fact, IIRC an implementation |
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of Knuth's "MIX" pedantic language is also in Portage. |
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