Adam Turoff wrote:
> The problem with cons/car/cdr is that they're fundemental operations.
> Graham *has* learned from perl, and is receptive to the idea that
> fundemental operators should be huffman encoded (lambda -> fn). It
> would be easy to simply rename car/cdr to first/rest, but that loses
Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:16:50AM +, Andy Wardley wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:55:56PM -0800, Rich Morin wrote:
>> > I'm not a Lisp enthusiast, by and large, but I think he makes some
>> > interesting observations on language design. Take a l
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:00:26PM -0500, Tanton Gibbs wrote:
> > The problem with cons/car/cdr is that they're fundemental operations.
> > Graham *has* learned from perl, and is receptive to the idea that
> > fundemental operators should be huffman encoded (lambda -> fn). It
> > would be easy to
> The problem with cons/car/cdr is that they're fundemental operations.
> Graham *has* learned from perl, and is receptive to the idea that
> fundemental operators should be huffman encoded (lambda -> fn). It
> would be easy to simply rename car/cdr to first/rest, but that loses
> the huffman natu
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:16:50AM +, Andy Wardley wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:55:56PM -0800, Rich Morin wrote:
> > I'm not a Lisp enthusiast, by and large, but I think he makes some
> > interesting observations on language design. Take a look if you're
> > feeling adventurous...
>
>
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Austin Hastings wrote:
> I'm done with 'P'. That's it. Putative planners of programming
> paradigms must proffer some prefix preferable to the pathetic
> palimpsest that is 'P'!
As with operators, so with programming languages -- Unicode comes not a
moment too soon.
/s
--- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:55:56PM -0800, Rich Morin wrote:
> > I'm not a Lisp enthusiast, by and large, but I think he makes some
> > interesting observations on language design. Take a look if you're
> > feeling adventurous...
>
> I can't help feel
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:55:56PM -0800, Rich Morin wrote:
> I'm not a Lisp enthusiast, by and large, but I think he makes some
> interesting observations on language design. Take a look if you're
> feeling adventurous...
I can't help feeling slightly deflated. Given the chance to re-design
Lis
I just finished skimming this write-up, located at
http://paulgraham.com/arcll1.html
I'm not a Lisp enthusiast, by and large, but I think he makes some
interesting observations on language design. Take a look if you're
feeling adventurous...
-r
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