[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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