From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-07-10T06:59:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby over Python?

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> Except just about all Lisps are dynamically-typed, not lazy and not
> side-effect free either...  Haskell would make a good addition to the
> taxonomy on itself.--
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Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org
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I guess you could say that. I used to write compilers for a living, so
perhaps my perspective is different. To me the essential trait that
distiguishes the Lisp-like family is that they're all based on
lambda-calculus. Everything Algol-like (including Ruby) is basically a
Turing machine. SQL and similar languages are off to the side, and Fortran I
guess would have to be classed as Turing-like. We're way off thread here, so
if you want to have the last word, be my guest ;-).

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