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From: vrotney@netcom.com (William Paul Vrotney)
Subject: Re: Lisp is not an interpreted language
In-Reply-To: Mukesh Prasad's message of Mon, 11 Nov 1996 09:31:59 -0500
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In article <328738DF.7D9E@dma.isg.mot.com> Mukesh Prasad
<mprasad@dma.isg.mot.com> writes:
> 
> Erik Naggum wrote:
> > 
> > as has already been mentioned here at the myth-debunking central, many Lisp
> > systems "interpret" code by compiling it first, then executing the compiled
> > code.
> 
> So that's different from the "sleigh of hand" I mentioned?  Are you
> a one-person myth-debunking central, or a myth-creation one?
> 
> 
> Perhaps instead of drawing fine lines in the sand about
> distinctions between interpreted and compiled, and
> trying to make being "compiled" the holy grail of Lisp
> systems, the Lisp community should have instead tried
> to see how well Lisp does as an Internet language!
> Nobody cares if Java is an interpreted language, as long as
> it does what they need done.
> 

Check out

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/cl-http/home-page.html = Common Lisp
                                                            Hypermedia Server

> Or on second thoughts, perhaps Lisp could become a Smalltalk
> like language -- a source of several ideas, instead
> of something in a limbo with always having a small
> but vocal minority needing to defend it by claiming
> it is not interpreted and such.

This reads as though Lisp has a mind of it's own.  Lisp is good for AI, I
didn't know it was that good! :-)

-- 

William P. Vrotney - vrotney@netcom.com
