Expressiveness (was Re: low-level approach)

[Francois-Rene Rideau]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:06:25AM -0500, Kyle Lahnakoski wrote:
> I did not mean to imply that Lisp is not superior to C or Java.  I
> wanted a discussion on WHY it is so.  What aspects of Lisp make it a
> good language?  Arrays, structs, classes, hashtables are all features
> that make a language better.  I would like to know more about the
> aspects of the core Lisp syntax that makes it preferred over other
> languages.
I didn't reply to your original message (yet), but it is because
I think it was right on the spot and deserved a good answer.
Actually, I reserved part of my thesis for the notion of expressiveness.
I don't have all the answers yet, but I have many elements,
and will try to present them in a coherent way in a next email.

Yours freely,

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