From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-08-27T08:18:05+09:00
Subject: Re: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mauricio Fern�ndez" <batsman.geo@yahoo.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?


>
> Anyway Lisp, often cited as THE functional language, is typeless and
> thus closer to Ruby than statically typed languages. Another argument to
> sustain our claim of Ruby being a great functional OO language!
>

I dispute that Lisp is THE functional language.  Mind you, I don't know much
about Lisp or functional languages, but it seems to me that Lisp merely
*encourages* functional programming.

Gavin