From: Pascal Costanza <pc@p-cos.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Nested Lambda function gives error in common lisp, guile, emacs lisp but works in scheme. Why?
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:42:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5mu1pvFevrusU2@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191812295.692215.113710@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>
William D Clinger wrote:
> If you can regard higher-order functions as
> unnatural, then you can regard Common Lisp's
> semantics as natural. That's the real lesson
> of the Gabriel/Pitman paper cited earlier in
> this thread. By the way, that paper was not
> subject to normal peer review; it was political
> from the start, and its conclusion that the
> advantages and disadvantages of Lisp-1 and
> Lisp-2 are comparable was pre-ordained.
>
> To reach that conclusion, they had to count
> at least one of the arguments against Lisp-2
> as an argument in favor of Lisp-2. I won't
> spoil your fun by explaining this; it's obvious
> if you read the paper carefully with an open
> mind.
Whatever. Lisp-1 just sucks. ;-)
Pascal
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-07 5:34 Nested Lambda function gives error in common lisp, guile, emacs lisp but works in scheme. Why? gnuist006
2007-10-07 5:36 ` gnuist006
2007-10-07 7:55 ` David Rush
2007-10-07 11:04 ` Pascal Costanza
2007-10-07 11:02 ` Pascal Costanza
2007-10-07 23:27 ` David Rush
2007-10-08 1:14 ` .
2007-10-08 3:43 ` Rainer Joswig
2007-10-08 2:58 ` William D Clinger
2007-10-08 6:42 ` Pascal Costanza [this message]
2007-10-08 20:33 ` namekuseijin
2007-10-08 20:48 ` Pascal Costanza
2007-10-08 19:05 ` Don Geddis
2007-10-08 6:39 ` Pascal Costanza
2007-10-08 0:09 ` Matthias Benkard
2007-10-08 12:24 ` Barry Margolin
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