Re: [tlug] ruby and python in Japan

[Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@??>]

On 1 mars 07, at 23:06, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> > (un) Common Lisp:
> >    Rest in peace.
>
> Oh, I don't know about that. For all the issues it has, it does have
> some very good points, too, from what I understand, such as the very
> large set of standard libraries. I think it actually could have been
> what Java is, had there been a freely available implemenation.

There are plenty of free (as in GNU-free) implementations of common  
lisp.

clisp for one.

> > Javascript:
> >    A whole 'nuther smoke, this is (normally) a client-side
> >    interpreted language, heavily dependent on a standard DOM.  Ie,
> >    can be combined effectively with any of the above, which are
> >    server-side.
>
> A reasonably nice language, and a perfect example of how lack of  
> library
> standardization can kill a decent language.


And the common point between Common Lisp and Javascript is that they  
are both standards: Common lisp is ANSI and Javascript is ECMA (if I  
remember well...)

JC