On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:06:25PM +0000, Gudmundur Erlingsson wrote: | > But remember, to be a truely self-absorbed, prescious, self-ritcheous | > unix god-wannabe, you can't go past LISP :) | > | | Ok, It seems like the cool-factor of LISP is as high as you can get, but what | are it's practical merits? If one intends to hack Emacs, then LISP is of | course essential, but does it go beyond that? (I'm thinking practical, it of | course would be quite interesting to learn from a CS standpoint) Anyone have
One usage might be with writing extensions to things. I can't seem to find it now, but guile stands for GNU Ubitiquis ... Language for Extending (or something similar). Guile is a Scheme interpreter (Scheme is a variant of Lisp). The gimp and gnucash use it to allow for user scripting. If you like lists, parenthesis, and recursion it can be useful for you. You may even like it more than python, perl, C, etc, etc. -D (some say that LISP stands for Lots of Idiotic Stupid Parenthesis <wink>)
