[om-list] Re: Language Power

[Luke Call]

Your point may be good about "blub". But how would lisp handle terabytes 
of data, and our requirements? We've been over this in detail, remember? 
I have used lisp (the scheme dialect, taught by one of the leading 
lights at the time) and couldn't seem to find ways to map it to the real 
world, though I asked the professors about it a lot back then (10 yrs 
ago). Like how to do object systems (write your own), persistence (not 
discussed), access to operating system facilities, databases, or other 
necessary utililties (well, didn't know, weren't so interested in that 
anyway), etc. Great for AI and education, they kept saying--so I say we 
may use it for that, as described below--as an embedded language to 
express things within the model that rows/columns can't so well (as 
discussed before), like formulas, algorithms, and actions performed by 
entities in the model, and perhaps more.

But to go beyond there I probably need to be educated.

:)

Luke

Tom and other Packers wrote:

> Luke
> 
>     I have the tendency of calling C++ "blub", if you know what I mean.
> 
>     I'll work on not calling C++ blub if you do the same for Java.
> 
>     :-)
> 
> tomp