From: Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Logo baseline
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 06:59:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31206882-b2d8-dd62-e7eb-d0d1748f4614@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wo9n4ju7.fsf@web.de>
On 1/19/20 6:11 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> Other adjectives I proposed (fast, functional) don’t quite apply to
>> these, though.
> Functional doesn’t apply to Guile much better than to CPython.
>
I think "functional" is used in the formal sense.
The term applies to Scheme, Haskell, SML: e.g., they iterate through
recursion.
Python, Lua, Perl, Javascript are imperative: e.g., they iterate through
i=i+1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-19 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-18 14:08 Logo baseline Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-18 14:33 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2020-01-18 15:08 ` Linus Björnstam
2020-01-18 17:05 ` Matt Wette
2020-01-18 19:40 ` Nala Ginrut
2020-01-18 22:22 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-01-18 22:57 ` Thomas Morley
2020-01-18 23:47 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-01-19 11:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-19 14:11 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-01-19 14:59 ` Matt Wette [this message]
2020-01-19 17:40 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-01-20 8:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-19 8:14 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
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