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Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@ofir.dk> writes:

> "Richard  Riehle" <adaworks@earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> > "Mark Lorenzen" <mark.lorenzen@ofir.dk> wrote in message
> > news:m3vfep90v7.fsf@0x5358ceb2.boanxx18.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk...
> > >
> > > Why oh why do they continue to teach LISP in the US? They should teach
> > > ML instead.
> > >
> > Lisp continues to be a useful tool for many kinds of applications.
> > It is, however, important that we understand the limits of each
> > our tools.  We must recognize that Lisp has its virtues, but also
> > know when to choose a toolset more appropriate for the problem
> > at hand.   Ada developers, those with a lot of experience in
> > developing software, understand that they must sometimes
> > combine code from some other language model in their
> > programs.  Fortunately, one of the significant virtues of
> > Ada is its friendliness to other languages -- something we
> > cannot acknowledge about many other popular languages.
> 
> I agree, it is just that I think Lisp is a "strange" language to use
> in a programming class.

Now there is an insightful remark...

/Jon

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