Re: kernel stack challenge

[viro]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:44:48PM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:
> >5. Well known. So there would be people around who
> >already know this language and expectations are clear.
> >And there are books around about this language.
> 
> LISP completely violates this requirement.  While I appreciate the power 
> of LISP for abstraction, list processing, and how it lends itself 
> towards many AI-related tasks, it's not a commonly-used language.

Whether it's commonly-used or not, there's another killer problem with LISP -
it's fragmented worse than even Pascal.  And "which subset and extensions
do we have in $IMPLEMENTATION" is worth "which language are we dealing with".
Worse, actually.  If you want a functional language - at least pick a
well-defined one.
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