From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 18 8:23:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from unity.copyleft.no (unity.copyleft.no [212.71.72.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E835637B424 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johs@unity.copyleft.no) Received: from johs by unity.copyleft.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14ptnW-0007cW-00 for doc@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:23:14 +0200 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:23:14 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Johannes_Gr=F8dem?= To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Developers' Handbook Message-ID: <20010418172314.A29210@unity.copyleft.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: Copyleft Software AS Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I thought I'd whine a bit about the Developers' Handbook. Section 5.3.2, specifically. Lisp isn't a strictly interpreted language. The various Lisps supported interpreted code, but most real programs are compiled. Sorry if you already knew this, but it seems a lot of people think Lisp is strictly interpreted. Also, I don't think Gnu Common Lisp is the best free Lisp out there. CMU Common Lisp, which is also in FreeBSD-ports, is supposed to be the best of the free ones. (I haven't really tried GNU CL, but I've heard of its shortcomings.) Oh, and the literature-section at the end of the chapter should mention "Ansi Common Lisp" by Paul Graham, I think. (Prentice Hall; ISBN 0133708756, 432 pages. 1 edition, November 2, 1995.) -- johs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message