From: John Carter Date: 2007-07-19T07:19:56+09:00 Subject: Mortran/Martians/Elisp / Proc Objects Re: Taking the bull by its horns[was background] On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > In message "Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]" > on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:38:16 +0900, John Carter writes: > > |bg: fortran,mortran,algol,basic,pascal,dcl,c,c++,lisp,scheme,assembler,perl,awk,sh,R,joy,sql,... > > Just curious, but what is mortran? Fortran for Martians? "More Fortran" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortran Basically a fat macro preprocessor in front of ordinary Fortran. Or Where I Learnt that "Syntactic Sugar has no (semantic) food value." Or "A Pig wearing lipstick is still a pig and you really really don't want to kiss it." > ...Sorry, I couldn't resist after seeing your name. I was a fan of > Burroughs novel when I was young. I get quite a lot of that... So I couldn't resist hacking the "X-" headings in my mailer a few years ago. (Tell your mail reader to show you the full headers on one of my posts to see what I mean.) Pity I don't have any of the scantily clad busty girls from the book covers... > male 42y > bg: BASIC,FORTRAN,Pascal,C,C++,Emacs Lisp,Scheme,AWK,sh,Perl,...and Ruby. (Yey) Ah yes, I do occasionally do bits of elisp and java as well. I forgot to mention Java because...because it's so forgettable. ps: Was the scoping of variables in Proc objects intended to mimic, in a more controlled way, the dynamic scoping of Elisp? Or how did that evolve? (I'm not complaining, I use that a fair amount in the same sort of context as I would use Elisp dynamic scoping.) > location: Matsue-city Shimane-prefecture, Japan That's one of the things I really like about Ruby. I enjoy the diversity of countries represented here. Makes it richer and better. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz New Zealand