From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2011-04-04T09:00:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Lambda Shambda

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On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 05:07:39AM +0900, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
> >
> >=A0Giving up on the cutting edge just
> > because you don't understand it yet only limits you.
>=20
> Considering that the idea of a "compiler" appeared around 1952 (with
> the first complete compiler appearing in '57, called FORTRAN,
> apparently), and LISP was formalized in 1958, it's not really that
> cutting edge, either. Nor is functional programming, if we consider APL
> from 1957*...

I was referring to programming language design in general, and not
specifically to compilers and LISP capabilitites per se, when I said "the
cutting edge".  The commentary to which I replied evinced a fairly
Luddite flavored rejection of programming in favor of spreadsheet abuse.


>=20
> * I consider immutable data to be key to functional programming, and
> LISP doesn't work that way, so *I* don't see it as a functional
> language. YMMV, of course.

My mileage (on this subject) depends somewhat on context.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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