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Re:C, The Beautiful Language by eru on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @08:39PM (#2330157)
Sure, no problem. I guess Emacs Lisp falls under the old-and-broken category. And Picolisp eschews functions as a data-type by choice. Do you know whether Picolisp offers lexical scoping?
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Re:C, The Beautiful Language by dexen on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @03:41AM (#2331208)
As the other response says. The FAQ provides some rationale & makes it clear you can, actually, build robust software with picolisp's model of scoping. My understanding is, ``dynamic scoping is faster for an interpreter'' and ``funarg is easy to avoid and closures are possible''.

See the three following points:

http://www.software-lab.de/doc/faq.html#dynamic

http://www.software-lab.de/doc/faq.html#problems

http://www.software-lab.de/doc/faq.html#closures

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Re:C, The Beautiful Language by akkartik on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @08:46PM (#2330175)
It offers something similar-but-not-quite called transient symbols: http://www.software-lab.de/doc/faq.html#problems

Alternative phrases for similar-but-not-quite: insidious, error-prone.

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