From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-04-04T14:20:38+09:00
Subject: Re: PHP in rubyforge?

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:48:21PM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> >>P.P.S: I actually tried to create a language that looks a *lot* like 
> >>Unlambda in the 1970s. I really thought it was useful, not some bizarre 
> >>computer scientist's way of making unreadable code. I wonder what would 
> >>have happened if I had tried to publish it?
> >>    
> >
> >You'd probably have your own mailing list, and people would be calling
> >you by some kind of cute four-letter term of endearment that ends with
> >Z.  Well, okay, maybe not, but it's fun to dream.
> >  
> This was in the early -- mid 1970s, before mailing lists and personal 
> computers. I discovered the lambda calculus and volume one of 
> _Combinatory Logic_ by Curry and Feys (the Curry being *Haskell* Curry) 
> in about 1971. That was when I decided to learn Lisp and read McCarthy's 
> paper. The language was going to be called "STRIP" by analogy with LISt 
> Processing for Lisp -- STRIP for STRIng Processing. It was essentially 
> McCarthy's character based version of Lisp (I forget what he called it) 
> with combinators instead of lambdas. When I saw Unlambda a couple of 
> weeks ago, I said, "Whoa! Somebody actually *did* that?"
> 
> I do have my own mailing list, and people call me "znmeb", a cute 
> five-letter word that beings with z. Hmmm ...

Coincidence . . . or conspiracy?

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