Re: [gentoo-dev] Is anyone a prude?

["M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net>]

Nick Dimiduk wrote:

> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>
>> Yes. There're at least four Gentoo users *that I know personally* who
>> will be using this. So far as I know, I've never met anyone who uses
>> clisp on Gentoo.
>>
>
> I use clisp on Gentoo, though we've never met.

I use clisp ... and cmucl and sbcl and gcl and guile. And sometimes 
Java. And often Fortran. And *all* on Gentoo. I use LISP for things LISP 
is good at, R for things R is good at, Perl for things Perl is good at, 
etc. And I'd use A Plus for things it's good at if you had it in Portage!

I took a look at "the language with the name offensive to some". It's a 
toy language -- an undergrad or maybe even high school computer science 
exercise. If all I had to work with was an Altair or a KIM-1, I'd sure 
experiment with it. It has exactly one thing going for it -- compactness.

Well, guess what -- I have a Pentium III and an Athlon T-Bird, and there 
is at least one *real* computer language just as compact -- FORTH -- 
represented in Portage by "gforth". IIRC the Vim syntax coloring for 
FORTH is already in place. As a matter of fact, IIRC an implementation 
of Knuth's "MIX" pedantic language is also in Portage.
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