[BiO BB] Has anyone ever tried Lisp?

[Malcolm Cook]

Some BioInf work on at SRI

Take a look at www.biolisp.org - offerings pretty thin but there is some
activity...

-Malcolm Cook


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bio_bulletin_board-admin at bioinformatics.org
> [mailto:bio_bulletin_board-admin at bioinformatics.org]On Behalf Of jim
> gellman
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 7:56 AM
> To: bio_bulletin_board at bioinformatics.org
> Subject: RE: [BiO BB] Has anyone ever tried Lisp?
>
>
> Lisp, and the related dialect Scheme, are both fun languages to work with,
> and I agree that you can learn a lot about programming through them.  In
> particular, the Scheme book "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer
> Programs" by Abelson and Sussman is an excellent book that will challenge
> the way you think about programming and deepen your enthusiasm for the
> craft.
>
> Whether or not it will scale, though, depends on what you mean by
> the word.
> I'd hesitate to use either for a large, multi-person project
> because of the
> lack of a type system.  Proper use of types can prevent a  whole lot of
> errors as software components evolve in large and small ways, and
> engineers
> come and go.
>
> jim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bio_bulletin_board-admin at bioinformatics.org
> > [mailto:bio_bulletin_board-admin at bioinformatics.org]On Behalf Of
> > hzi at uol.com.br
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:06 PM
> > To: bio_bulletin_board at bioinformatics.org
> > Subject: [BiO BB] Has anyone ever tried Lisp?
> >
> >
> > Hi-
> >
> > 	Just out of curiosity: I was looking at Lisp, and found it to
> > 	be pretty interesting. Lispers claim is can really __scale__.
> >
> > 	Has anyone tried Lisp at all here? Anything done on bioinfo
> > 	with Lisp?
> > 	I dopn't know, the more I look into Lisp, the more tempted I
> > 	am...How about you?
> >
> > 	Check out: <http://www.lisp.org>
> >
> > 	Regards,
> > 	-HL
> >
> >
> >
> >
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