[Shacs] Now I know why lisp is given the short-shrift at Sam

[Sean Rastus Johansen Duckett]

* Jonathan Hill <jonathan.f.hill at gmail.com> [2008-07-28 13:38:40 -0400]:

> Because there's nothing in Ada that can do anything like this!
> http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2907

(setq joshing 'on)

Actually, Mr. Hill,

It is my belief that Lisp is distanced due to the following:

<http://xkcd.com/378/>

The fact that "there's an Emacs command for that..." relegates Lisp (and
subdialects, of course) to mere "scripting languages".  Sorry, Lisp
can't do anything useful....it is only for making an editor do "fancy"
things...;)

(setq joshing 'off)

--smd.
"... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often
picturesque liar."

p.s: I saw a guy in Lowe's Hardware Emporium who was wearing an XKCD
"college tee".  I very loudly pointed at him, saying "GOOD SHIRT, MAN!".
He enjoyed it, with the classic "geek smirk".  I was in Lowe's shopping
for dirt...