> "Lisp will remain the pinnacle of lambda calculus" ??? : Surreal > feeling of falling into a 25-year time-warp > > Read this http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87.pdf > > Just for historical context: > When this was written in the 80s: > - The FP languages of the time -- KRC, SASL, Miranda, Orwell -- were > elegant and academic > - Lisp was quasi-industrial-strength but as Wadler argues above, was > not doing good service to functional programming
Fascinating. -- MarkJ Tacoma, Washington -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
