Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!gatech!prism!tynor From: tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor) Newsgroups: comp.sw.components Subject: Re: Lisps Message-ID: <2135@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 28 Sep 89 13:31:30 GMT References:<6617@hubcap.clemson.edu> Reply-To: tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 23 Bill "Ada - the One True Language" Wolfe writes: >From ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning): > I take it the Lisp community does not value portability... > what happens when you want to take code from one manufacturer's > Lisp and compile it on a different system? Get your head out of your, ahem, ARM - learn about the world outside Ada. Common Lisp is quite standardized, thank you. We port code between various machines regularly with very little difficulty (user interface issues mostly - you can't blame CL for that!) > Also: how about exception handling? Read about it. Lookup unwind-protect, catch and throw. Lisp has had exception handling for years (decades). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= (require 'disclaimer) Steve Tynor Georgia Tech Research Institute Artificial Intelligence Branch tynor@prism.gatech.edu