How newLisp Took My Breath (And Syntax) Away

Re:How newLisp Took My Breath (And Syntax) Away by itistoday on Sunday January 10, 2010 @04:24PM (#1043690)

To someone who wants to use newLISP for calculating Pi to the nth digit, it might appear "fundamentally broken." Of course I don't know why on earth you would want to do that in the first place, using a program/language specialized for such a task would be a far brighter idea, as such, the doc you refers to correctly suggests using the 'bc' program.

However, for someone who wants a Lisp for rapid web development, newLISP is a dream come true:

http://www.rundragonfly.com

As emphasized in the article: use the language that's most appropriate for the task at hand.

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Re:How newLisp Took My Breath (And Syntax) Away by qu1j0t3 on Monday January 11, 2010 @04:42PM (#1046100)

And if you want the value of pi, why not just use the same method invoked by bc in that code snippet: 4*atan(1)

http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlisp_manual.html#atan

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Re:How newLisp Took My Breath (And Syntax) Away by itistoday on Monday January 11, 2010 @01:47PM (#1045671)

newLISP also has a bignum module (with 64-bit support):

http://www.newlisp.org/code/modules/gmp.lsp.html

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