Subject: How to use Maxima from within C++ program (CGI)?
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:38:53 -0400
Oliver Kullmann wrote:
> rather funny to consider Lisp a "high-level" language: It's a hacker's language!
> No abstraction, just for smaller programs (with small teams).
>
You are wrong. Read the spec sometime.
>>> Programmers are often too conservative: someone somehow convinced them
>>> that C++ (or java) is the best and they will never even try
>>> looking into
>>> lisp, or perl, or whatever.
>>>
>
> The question is about untyped versus typed programming languages:
> Trivially untyped programming languages (i.e., hacker languages) are easier
> for small jobs, but don't scale.
If you mean Lisp, then this is also wrong. The compiler for cmucl,
sbcl, and probably most other Lisps are all written in Lisp. I don't
think they're considered "small".
But the maxima list is not the place to discuss this.
Ray