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Re: [Axiom-developer] Lisp portability


From: Gabriel Dos Reis
Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] Lisp portability
Date: 22 May 2007 08:51:35 -0500

Jay Belanger <address@hidden> writes:

| "Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
| > On May 22, 2007 8:54 AM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| >> ...
| >> Waldek wrote:
| >> | <rant>  People frequently wonder why Perl is more popular
| >> | than Lisp.
| >>
| >> Oh, I thought it was Python :-) :-)
| >>
| >
| > People (ambiguous third parties...) often wonder why Python
| > is more popular than Perl ... ;)
| >
| > More seriously, this issue of Lisp (non)portability is a
| > major problem.
| 
| As far as I can tell, this is an odd place to mention portability of
| Lisp.  The rant above was about Lisp's non-ability to use system
| calls, while Perl has that ability.  Wouldn't systems calls in a piece
| of code tend to make it non-portable?  

The point was more subttle than that.

-- Gaby




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