From: Peter Wood <peter.wood@...>
Date: 2001-01-17T00:10:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9382] Re: 101 Misconceptions About Dynamic Languages

"Christian" <christians@syd.microforte.com.au> writes:

> > > Meta-programming? C++. This is far more important than anything else.
> >
> > Never used Lisp, huh?
> 
> Ahh Larry you seem intent on attempting to belittle me. I am familiar with
> Lisp. Who can get a degree (or two) and not be? No, I don't use it
> professionally. I don't use ML professionally either, but that doesn't mean
> I have no understanding of FP. FP rocks, we all know that. It is also very
> intellectual, and above most people. But that doesn't mean that we should
> throw away the notion of functions as first-class-objects.
> 

Hi,

If you are suggesting that Lisp *is* FP, you are not familiar with
Lisp.  Lisp can support FP as well as procedural, OO etc, etc ....
Add anything you choose ;-)  You might be thinking of Scheme.

Peter