Thursday, March 4, 2010

Verity Stob on Lisp

From a Verity Stob article on exception handling:

I apologise in advance to the industry’s senior commentator for not covering Scheme or other Lisp dialects and, thus, continuing the tendency to dumb down. This does not mean that I fail to recognise that Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. It just means that I have no idea how, or indeed if, Lisp handles exceptions.

It does, by the way, assuming Common Lisp. It is slightly peculiar, as is the CL custom.

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