On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 8:56:00 AM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote: > On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 9:36:27 PM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > On 14/05/2015 02:40, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 May 2015 04:07 am, zipher wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> No, you haven't understood, padawan. Lambda *is* the function, not it's > > >> definition. Perhaps you will understand what I mean by that, perhaps you > > >> won't. It's subtle. > > > > > > Subtle like a kick to the head. > > > > From the very first drivel that he posted on python ideas just over two > > years ago, he's shown that he's incapable of any logical thought > > relating to computing, in just the same way that the RUE has never > > posted anything logical about the FSR. Please can we stop feeding him. > > The truth is quite the opposite. There is something very strange going on > around the nets. People are very confused. Javascript has confused them. > Tell me where is the lexer in Javascript? or the virtual machine? > > The point I'm making about LISP is that in LISP you don't define a function, > it IS the function. Instead of f(x,y) = x+y, which is how you code a > traditional program, you only show/program f itself. In the lambda calculus, > it is expressed f = /(x,y).x+y where / is the lambda character, not f(x) or f > OF x. Do you see why the difference is subtle? > > Java has a virtual machine. Python has a virtual machine. Do you think > Chrome and these browsers include virtual machines to run on 50 different > architectures? I'm actually curious if anyone has a non-magical answer to > it. We all assume that computers can only act logically and have always > acted such. But they way some people act and the way somethings are being > done is making questions. Perhaps I'm the only one. >
As for chrome and its specific VM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_%28JavaScript_engine%29 As for the rest... We are as confused by your confusions as you are [Your continual assertions about everyone everywhere being totally confused reminds me of my first trip to N America where I was unnerved to find everyone driving on the wrong side of the road] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
