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A comment on Plot: A Programming Language for Old Timers (2009).

Re:Plot: A Programming Language for Old Timers (2009) by FabHK on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @12:00PM (#20516560)
Not sure I read this correctly (and I know nothing about LISP), but this seems to support multiple dispatch (ie method selection based on the types of all function arguments)?
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Re:Plot: A Programming Language for Old Timers (2009) by linfocito on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @12:59PM (#20517165)
Yes, it supports multiple dispatch. And so does CLOS (Common Lisp Object System)
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