Comments on: Thanks Again, McCarthy http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/thanks-again-mccarthy/ Peter Christensen's Blog Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:20:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Best Quote About Lisp (That’s No Longer Valid) » What’s In Peter’s Head http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/thanks-again-mccarthy/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Best Quote About Lisp (That’s No Longer Valid) » What’s In Peter’s Head Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:26:11 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/thanks-again-mccarthy/#comment-59 [...] Fortunately, the gulf between programming languages isn’t as great as it was in 1992 when PAIP was published.  While languages like C and C++ are hard to beat for performance and OS interaction, newer languages like Python and Ruby (and even Java/C# with garbage collection) deal more with computation than direct hardware manipulation.  Fortunately they haven’t followed Lisp in all ways! [...] [...] Fortunately, the gulf between programming languages isn’t as great as it was in 1992 when PAIP was published.  While languages like C and C++ are hard to beat for performance and OS interaction, newer languages like Python and Ruby (and even Java/C# with garbage collection) deal more with computation than direct hardware manipulation.  Fortunately they haven’t followed Lisp in all ways! [...]

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