3 Nov
2011
3 Nov
'11
3:59 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: John McCarthy
I have never heard of the novel and Hayao Miyazaki works for (or owns?)
Studio Ghibli.
On 31 October 2011 21:31, Andrew Burton
<aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
>>
>> Many thanks! Lots of food for further reading there.
>>
>> May I ask: what do folk think of the quote I've often seen cited:
>>
>> * Scheme is an exotic sports car. Fast. Manual transmission. No radio.
>> * Emacs Lisp is a 1984 Subaru GL 4WD: "the car that's always in front
of
> you."
>> * Common Lisp is Howl's Moving Castle.
>>
>
> Interesting quote comparing Common Lisp with an anime (Howls Moving
Castle).
> The anime is made by one of the legendary studios
within the genre
(Studio
> Ghibli). So I guess it would be a great
complement to the language.
> My favourite Subaru is the Imprezza and any sports car has to be driven
in
> manual gears to get the most pleasure out of
driving it - just don't go
from
5th gear to
1st, whilst at high speed!!!
/Howl's Moving Castle/ is a *novel* by thr late Diana Wynne Jones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl%27s_Moving_Castle
The book was subsequently adapted into a film by Hayao Miyazaki.
The point of the quote is not the film; it's the eponymous object. In
other words, the Scheme is small and fast and elegant but possibly a
bit too much hard work for some people; that Emacs Lisp may not be
pretty but it gets the job done very well; and that Common Lisp is,
especially by comparison to the other two, impossibly large and
complex and baroque and completely and utterly impractical.
/That/ is what I was after folks' opinions on!
Sorry, I misinterpreted what you were after.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk