quote:Original post by Alpha_ProgDes
string fruits[] = {"apples", "oranges", "pears", "bananas"};

• It is an array, not a list composed of cons cells.
  
• fruits is a different type from "apples".
  
• In fact, "apples" is only a value, and not a reference in your code.
  
• fuits cannot be reset to something else easily.
  
• We cannot extract the spelling of the term fruits.
  
• We can''t ask our program at runtime what type fruits is.
  
• We haven''t coded any way of determining the number of values in the array called fruits.
  
• I could go on...

quote:Original post by Fruny
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As a complete program, it looks very much like a no-op to me. The symbol fruit would be discarded on exit, no side-effect

quote:Original post by bishop_pass
You too have missed what the Lisp program accomplishes. When the Lisp program finishes, the capability only just starts. What''s important is what you can do after the Lisp statement has been executed. In the case of your C++ program, what it accomplishes is nothing.

quote:Original post by Tron3k Now, I''ve just found something amazing about Lisp! You can have an integer that''s as big as you want! Like 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999! And you can multiply it and everything! This is so cool. Also it has built-in facility for complex numbers.

• Integers: fixnum and bignum.
  
• Floating Point Numbers: short, long, single and double.
  
• Ratios.
  
• Complex Numbers.
  
• Characters: standard- char and string-char
  
• Symbols.
  
• Conses.
  
• Lists: Which can be arbitrary trees, functions, etc.
  
• Arrays.
  
• Vectors.
  
• Strings.
  
• Bit Vectors.
  
• Hash Tables.
  
• Packages.
  
• Random-States.
  
• Structures.
  
• Functions.
  

quote:Original post by Fruny
You can just go and run any [insert favourite language] within an interactive debugger; some even let you go back and modify the code on the fly. It''s definitely not as convenient, but it''s possible.