[Gllug] Speaker Suggestion

Ian Scott mriscott at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jan 9 12:17:55 UTC 2004


> > Doesn't (almost) everyone have something to bring to the table that others can 
> > benefit from?
> 
> Well, no, given that Lisp is pretty much a superset of every other
> programming language[1].
> 

Something being a superset of something else does not make it better.

It all depends what you're trying to do with it.

C++ is a superset of C, but I wouldn't write a "Hello World" application in
C++.

My house contents is a superset of my suitcase, but I'd only take the latter on
holiday.

Just my 2p

Ian
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