From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: alinsoar@voila.fr
Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>,
"Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Embedding Html in Lisp
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:07:10 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od5rlxu9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10403029.8884311214227267799.JavaMail.www@wwinf4622>
A Soare writes:
> With the new definition, they can be compared.
Well, as TTN and TL point out, the comparison is unfavorable to HTML,
which is highly unsuited to use as a programming language for a lot of
reasons.
In fact, IMO HTML is more comparable to prolog, as a declarative language.
The thing that has always fascinated me is just how powerful the
single idea that a programming language which has the same syntax for
executable code and data has been. Andrew Suffield once proposed that
Haskell *syntax* is Lisp without the Irritating Slew of Parentheses,
and it's an attractive way to think about it. Yet it's not a great
syntax for manipulation as data.
I think Lisp is eternal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-23 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-23 13:21 Embedding Html in Lisp A Soare
2008-06-23 13:51 ` tomas
2008-06-23 16:56 ` Thomas Lord
2008-06-23 17:04 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-23 20:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
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2008-07-01 19:05 A Soare
2008-06-24 3:09 A Soare
2008-06-24 10:19 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-24 0:32 A Soare
2008-06-24 0:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-24 1:34 ` Thomas Lord
2008-06-23 21:38 A Soare
2008-06-23 14:08 A Soare
2008-06-24 13:36 ` T. V. Raman
2008-06-24 14:41 ` joakim
2008-06-23 12:23 A Soare
2008-06-23 11:49 A Soare
2008-06-22 22:27 A Soare
2008-06-22 20:56 A Soare
2008-06-22 21:29 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-23 8:33 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-22 20:53 Embedding HTML " A Soare
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