Re: kernel stack challenge

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Timothy Miller wrote:

>Sergiy Lozovsky wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> All LISP errors are incapsulated within LISP VM.
>>  
>
>
>A LISP VM is a big, giant, bloated.... *CHOKE* *COUGH* *SPUTTER* 
>*SUFFOCATE* ... thing which SHOULD NEVER be in the kernel.

Ah your thinking of the days when 1 meg of memory was a lot and LISP was 
considered huge..  With 4 gigs of memory today, it shouldnt be a problem 
:). Actually a LISP vm can fit into a small amount of memory depending 
on what you want it to do... 

I think in the end, this is a 'When all you know is to hammer, 
everything is a nail.' They know LISP.

>Why do you choose LISP?  Don't you want to use a language that sysadmins 
>will actually KNOW?

Because how else can you get emacs to the only thing to run?

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