Re:Annotated Version of John McCarthy’s Paper on Lisp
by aiokos on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @06:09PM
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I agree. The Clojure syntax comparisons are probably due to the popularity of that language, compared to Scheme or other Lisp dialects. Perhaps a comment section in addition to the annotations would provide more insightful discussions.
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Re:Annotated Version of John McCarthy’s Paper on Lisp
by pjmlp on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @03:11AM
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Yeah to many of us old timers, it feels strange when new FP afficionados only know about Clojure and Haskell like languages, without realising that we already were doing FP for a few generations even if the languages never became mainstream.
On the other hand, it is great that those people jump in with their new ideas and help the community go forward.