From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2000-12-14T06:26:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7174] Re: Ruby in Ruby

> <<SNIP>>
> >... Once you remove
> >the idea that text is the language and replace it with an "Object Tree"
> >is the language, the gates are open to a large number of strange
> >thoughts. 
> <<SNIP>>
> "Object Tree" ==> I(tentional) P(rogramming), anybody?


Intensional Programming was first demonstrated by John McCarthy around
1959.  His system was called LISP. 


matju