Am Mo., 17. Feb. 2025 um 23:23 Uhr schrieb John Cowan <[email protected]>:
[...] By the time we have weeded out all such possibilities, Scheme will be a > first-order programming language. > Even less because procedures (as an abstract concept) can also be encoded as data. (NB That Scheme has first-order procedures in contrast with, say, C, is a bit of a red herring. It is obvious how to implement closures with C; the actual difference to Scheme is basically that Scheme makes it much more comfortable to work with first-order procedures.)
