I can attest from personal experience that many of the folks who were
working on Ada were quite familiar with everything going on with Lisp
as well as Smalltalk and other language trends of the day (this was
around 1980).
While many of the ideas in Ada aren't so popular now (and weren't even
while
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 12:31:16PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
>On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:45:43 -0300
>Angel Java Lopez wrote:
>
>> I would like to add Ada exception management. I don't know if there were
>> previous work on the field. Any info? I worked with Algol, but I don't
>> remember if something l
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:45:43 -0300
Angel Java Lopez wrote:
> I would like to add Ada exception management. I don't know if there were
> previous work on the field. Any info? I worked with Algol, but I don't
> remember if something like exceptions was present those days. Any early Lisp
> exception
I would like to add Ada exception management. I don't know if there were
previous work on the field. Any info? I worked with Algol, but I don't
remember if something like exceptions was present those days. Any early Lisp
exception management?
And namespaces. The first Eiffel had no management of n
Paul Graham might be correct that main stream languages will
incorporate features that Lisp had many years ago but the result won't
be Lisp.
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Everything looks the same if you use a loose enough equality function
I guess.
Using a loose enough equality function, you can argue that Clojure is
just Lisp running on top of a mutable, Object Oriented framework (the
JVM). Immutable data structures and controlled changes of immutable
values is n
Nothing new has been invented in software for the last 40 years...
Mostly recycling of existing concepts with (sometimes) improvements.
Since most people are not reading about the history of computers and
software they are under the impression that the stuff they deal with
is brand new.
Of co
On 29 Dec 2009, at 04:14, jim wrote:
> Had an interesting conversation with a programmer friend of mine. He's
> skeptical of my Lisp leanings and mostly sticks to the 'normal'
> languages; C++, Java, etc.
>
> I made that comment that pretty much all the languages derived from
> Algol like the C
I don't know Algol, but I think you're correct:
http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html
On Dec 29, 1:14 pm, jim wrote:
> Had an interesting conversation with a programmer friend of mine. He's
> skeptical of my Lisp leanings and mostly sticks to the 'normal'
> languages; C++, Java, etc.
>
> I made th
