From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] roff(7) [ and other related stuff ]
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 23:10:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiWJuAXNfpOwzs_ycYeFEEF+ezvF1mAw03fBAFA55zjf0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
> Lisp, _that's_ elegant.
The machine shines through Lisp even more brightly than it does
through C. Lisp attains incredible power from a tiny base: car, cdr,
cons, cond, T, F, null, lambda, def, exuding elegance that survives
even in a raging sea of parentheses.
For Lisp-friendly applications nowadays, I prefer Haskell, which is
much further away from the machine. Haskell code approaches--and
sometimes surpasses--the cleanliness of good mathematical notation.
For string processing, I remember Snobol 3 with great fondness.
But for everyday work with arrays and numbers, C is the workhorse.
Still, I wish that C would evaluate comma expressions in parallel
rather than in series, as in (a,b) = (b,a).
Doug
next reply other threads:[~2022-01-02 4:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-02 4:10 Douglas McIlroy [this message]
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2022-01-02 4:02 Noel Chiappa
2022-01-02 10:46 ` markus schnalke
2021-12-31 15:47 [TUHS] roff(7) Douglas McIlroy
2021-12-31 23:07 ` George Michaelson
2021-12-31 23:40 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-01 20:00 ` [TUHS] roff(7) [ and other related stuff ] Jon Steinhart
2022-01-02 0:12 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-02 1:04 ` John Cowan
2022-01-02 1:20 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-02 1:47 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-01-02 2:12 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-02 3:56 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-01-02 1:48 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-01-02 3:04 ` John Cowan
2022-01-02 3:30 ` Warner Losh
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