As HTML-y as it it is, PHP is Turing complete and thus a "real" programming language.
It's got foreach loops, mutable arrays, and boolean logic, and that's one particular set of operations to simulate a Turing machine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine http://aturingmachine.com/ sincerely, --Robert McIntyre On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:04 PM, John Svazic <jsva...@gmail.com> wrote: >> They do seem to allow whatever you like if you upload your own >> package. I'm hooked on using their built-in editor, so in some cases >> I copy-and-paste code until they get around to updating their version >> of Clojure. The one nice thing about the site is that they do seem >> rather responsive to questions, bugs and feature requests! >> >> I'm jsvazic on the site if anyone is interested. :-) Based on the >> list of recent submissions lately, it seems like Clojure is getting a >> lot of exposure! It's funny to see some language "turf wars" showing >> up, since I've seen Clojure dominate "recent submissions" list, then >> Scala gets a kick, then people go on a PHP binge for some reason. :-) > > PHP? Isn't that a web page generation engine, rather than a > general-purpose application programming language? > >> In any case, I'm finding the site absolutely great, and it's been an >> absolute boon for updating my Clojure skills. I fully expect that in >> the next 6 months I'll look back at earlier submissions and say "what >> was I thinking?!" :-) > > I think we all get that at first. It may be because functional/Lisp is > somewhat alien to most other things you're likely to have had > experience with beforehand, or just because C++ is to chess as Lisp is > to go -- fewer moves and simpler rules, but oh so much depth as your > Lisp-fu grows strong. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
