Subject: Re: Can I use Lisp? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: 2000/11/05 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3182419942547827@naggum.net> * Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> | - Then to try to compete with Perl for hackers; at least set up | something like CPAN and some widely published regexp utilities. <link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/groups/img/3/favicon.ico"> expressions is just the wrong tool for the job -- it is right in Perl because Perl is very, very heavily optimized for them so few other approaches make sense, including Common Lisp. If we even try to mimic Perl on the regular expression front, we have a loser. Perl is about doing something that saves the day. Common Lisp is about doing something that saves the month or the year. It may take just as long to write, but that's the perspective difference. #:Erik ------- //--></script> honored meaning of excellent coders with a passion. It is probably not the mass media meaning. -- Does anyone remember where I parked Air Force One? -- George W. Bush