From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1S4HnuI003983 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 04:17:50 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D5cLr-00035F-9x for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 04:17:47 +0000 Received: from [24.21.54.168] (c-24-21-54-168.client.comcast.net[24.21.54.168]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005022804174801300qdomqe>; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 04:17:48 +0000 Message-ID: <42229B6B.3060908@cesmail.net> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:17:47 -0800 From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050129) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is anyone a prude? References: <20050226204457.0bfad52d@snowdrop> <20050227091757.GA7521@sympatico.ca> <20050227102844.054405c5@beech.glades.net> <20050227094039.GC7521@sympatico.ca> <4221979F.3040102@people.pl> <20050227135412.GF7521@sympatico.ca> <4221D590.50008@people.pl> <20050227095255.6racs8ogs0084wsk@webmail.spamcop.net> <20050227150743.0cbaa874@snowdrop> <42221FC6.1030104@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <42221FC6.1030104@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 49380b9d-197b-40a4-bf38-c58f7d837b3d X-Archives-Hash: 8b0325f856dc4e56945ef76e3932c10b 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list