On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 04:27, Tim Writer wrote:

Marcus Brubaker <marcus.brubaker-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> writes:

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On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 23:30, Henry Spencer wrote:

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On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Peter Hiscocks wrote: Hell, even Prolog and the many species of LISP-type-languages are interesting in their own right (though not terribly useful in my mind).

LISP not useful? Sacrilege! I'm responding to this with Gnus, still arguably one of the best mail/news clients, running within Xemacs, still arguably one of the best programmers' editors (vi/emacs flame wars notwithstanding), written in a dialect of LISP.

Alright alright, I give, LISP is certainly more useful than a lot of languages and people have done some interesting things in them :)

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But if you fit well into a specific category of application development then there is a whole host of better choices for you. For instance, next major GUI application I write will probably be in Java [....]

You might find this article, by one of the LISP community's greats, both interesting and on topic:

http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html

To each their own opinion but if you want to do OOP then there really isn't a better language out there than Java. From my point of view Java is C++ done relatively right from the language perspective. Regards, -- Marcus Brubaker <marcus.brubaker-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml