Hallelujah!

From: Mike <dogas_at_leading.net>
Date: Tue Apr 6 17:00:36 1999

Amen.

:)
- Mike: dogas_at_leading.net



-----Original Message-----
From: Max Eskin <max82_at_surfree.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 11:44 PM
Subject: Hallelujah!


>I've finally gotten around to reading a LISP book that I had bought months
>before, and I can see why people refer to LISP as a religious experience
>(I've seen that said at least twice). It's really a wonderful language. I
>wonder how it is worse than BASIC or Perl. Also, although I didn't really
>take the time to really understand smalltalk (Squeak is slow and
>unstable), I can see the beginnings of smalltalk in LISP. Wow. This thing
>really is pretty amazing. This should be taught in every computer
>programming course, along with PAL-8, C, and Perl. I am now certain that
>if a language is hard to learn (C++ comes to mind), there's something
>wrong with it :)
>
>--Max Eskin (max82_at_surfree.com)
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 06 1999 - 17:00:36 BST