Subject: Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile."
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 16 Oct 2002 18:13:32 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3243780812018665@naggum.no>

* Thomas F. Burdick
| Out of curiosity, have you used Java much?

  Not for production purposes.  I do not think I will want to do that.  I
  would rather hire cheap programmers who can write Java code than do it
  myself, but I actually believe it is a good language for its purposes and
  I have read a lot on Java.  I want to program in Common Lisp, not Java,
  myself, but if I were to hire a bunch of people to get something done, I
  would want them to use something that was not braindamaged like C++ and
  which I could be reasonably sure was not all buggy like C programs are.

| Maybe the Java way is a worse fit to my brain than it is to most peoples,
| but I find the standard libraries sometimes get in the way to the extent
| that it might be easier to just reimplement what I want in a less-crazy
| manner.

  Well, people should not use tools that do not fit the way they think.

-- 
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway

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