Re: Lua is about to become history

[Lisa Parratt <lisa@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> I guess he really thinks so; but it is not true :)
> "Original" Lisp had no lexical closures, no pattern matching, no
> coroutines (or threads or continuations, for that matter), no API to
> other languages, no exception handling, no module system, and I think it
> did not require proper tail calls.  (What it had always excelled was in
> "extensible semantis", aka macros.)
>   
"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, 
informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of 
CommonLisp <http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CommonLisp>." - Philip Greenspun
"Including Common Lisp." - Robert Morris


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Lisa