Can Lisp do What Perl Does Easily?

Re:Can Lisp do What Perl Does Easily? by lupin_sansei on Friday September 07, 2007 @12:51AM (#51514)

These ranters never actually show you any perl code that is particularly ugly and compare it against some lisp/python/ruby code that solves the problem more cleanly.

I'm sure that there are areas where other languages' solutions are much cleaner than an equivalent perl one, but can anybody actually show us one? Especially a lisp one.

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Re:Can Lisp do What Perl Does Easily? by SwellJoe on Friday September 07, 2007 @01:28AM (#51531)

pg wrote a few in an essay. (And, unremarkably, though I'm going to remark on it anyway, Perl stands up as well as any other mainstream language to the onslaught. Perl 6 does even better, though I think one of the biggest side effects of Perl 6 is going to be a huge influx of Haskell coders because of Pugs.)

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Re:Can Lisp do What Perl Does Easily? by edu on Friday September 07, 2007 @03:48AM (#51576)

And when will be Perl 6 ready?

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Re:Can Lisp do What Perl Does Easily? by lupin_sansei on Friday September 07, 2007 @04:10AM (#51580)

The day before Arc comes out.

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Re:Can Lisp do What Perl Does Easily? by edu on Friday September 07, 2007 @04:46AM (#51591)

Heh, that's a good one :D

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Re:Can Lisp do What Perl Does Easily? by SwellJoe on Friday September 07, 2007 @05:09AM (#51598)

Possibly by Christmas. Many of us are already using it with Pugs.

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Re:Can Lisp do What Perl Does Easily? by lupin_sansei on Friday September 07, 2007 @10:07PM (#52000)

Wow not a single example!

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