iables and declarative concurrency' and
onward.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(programming_language)
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ages Erlang and Oz to get an idea.
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the various Perl texts,
as well as posts here.
Of course, a whole lot better his terminology than no language at all!
David
Perl is solidly based in the UNIX world on awk, sed, bash and C.
I don't like the style, but many do.
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. is a multiple-value-bind
2. is a destructuring-bind
3. is a let
http://common-lisp.net/project/metabang-bind/
To me this is a example of where the ANSI group could have spent more time
on naming.
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ooO Ooo
Doesn't copying Rainer Joswig's troll warning constitute a copywright
infrigment :)
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More precisely defvar, defparameter, progv and (declare (special var))
create variables with dynamic scope.
let and let* do as you said use a lexical scope. (unless you use a declare
as above)
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any Selenium platform.
System functional testing. Create regression tests to verify application
functionality and user acceptance.
There is also a Lisp interface cl-selesium though I can't find the code on
the net now.
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On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:25:19 +0200, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Laziness, Perl, and Larry Wall
>
> Xah Lee, 20021124
>
> In the unix community there's quite a large confusion and wishful
> thinking about the word laziness. In this post, i'd like to make some
> clarifications.
>
> American
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:19:49 +0100, > wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> So don't (poke (random) value). That would be obvious to anyone
>> capable of writing a device driver in C or Lisp or Oberon or
>
> Similarly in C programs, don't do
>
> *random = 0;
>
> Avoiding that is easier sai
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:19:40 +0100, > wrote:
>
> Incorrect, I believe. The above is like saying Lisp's lack of
> optional manual storage allocation and machine pointers makes Lisp
> less powerful. It's in fact the absence of those features that lets
> garbage collection work reliably. Reliable
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:39:44 +0100, Timofei Shatrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12 Dec 2006 18:03:49 -0800, "Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tried to
> confuse
> everyone with this message:
>
>> There are a lot of people that use Wikipedia. I think some of them
>> might want to learn to program.
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:13:26 +0100, Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not even close.
>
> In my example above:
> for a in y:
>dosomethingwith(a)
> y could be a lot of built-in types such as an array, list, tuple, dict,
> file, or set.
> - Paddy.
>
I was refering to the recursive Lisp exampl
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:54:58 +0100, Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Robert Uhl wrote:
>
>> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >
>> > Speaking as somebody who programmed in FORTH for a while, that doesn't
>> > impress me much. Prefix/postfix notation is, generally speaking, more
>>
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:29:43 +0100, Steven D'Aprano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Oh my god! Lisp can echo STRINGS to the interpreter Why didn't
> somebody somebody tell me that That *completely* changes my mind
> about
> the language!
>
> I'm especially impressed that it knew I wan
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:49:59 +0100, mystilleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Donkeys have wings.
>
? You attitude towards CLOS is obviously insane.
>> In the windows world the best way to access system libraries are
>> via .NET. Thus each language inventing it's own libraries is quickly
>> be
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:04:04 +0100, mystilleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Bill Atkins wrote:
>> Are any of these not subjective?
>
> Objectivity is in the eye of the beholder.
>
>> Lisp is much more than a functional language.
>
> Maybe so. But I've only ever appreciated its functional aspects
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 20:11:22 +0200, Anton van Straaten
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In this context, the term "latently-typed language" refers to the
language that a programmer experiences, not to the subset of that
language which is all that we're typical
On Tue, 23 May 2006 15:58:12 +0200, John D Salt
wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> [Snips]
>> Wrong. We live in a paradise of ideas and possibilities well beyond the
>> wildest dreams of only 20 years ago.
>
> What exciting new ideas exist in software that are bot
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:33:49 +0100, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i longed for such a accountable predictions for a long time. Usually,
> some fucking fart will do predictions, but the problem is that it's not
> accountable. So, lots fuckhead morons in the IT industry will shout
> ...
Fin
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:48:01 +0200, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for various notes. Bonono?
>
> I will have to look at the itertools module. Just went to the doc
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/module-itertools.html
> looks interesting.
>
>> But I believe Python is desig
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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:07:42 +1000, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
McCarty, Greg wrote:
Ok, I'm new to python, and I'm trying to come to grips with a few
things.
Got
lots of years of experience with Java and asp/aspx, etc. Trying to
relate
Python's behavior to what I already know.
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