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On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:07:47PM -0800, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
An important thing to realize here is that Lisp (LISt Processing) was
developed as a way to express mathematical operations, NOT as a
programming language. The fact that interpreters can be used to
Err, I think Lisp was developed as an alternative to the Turing Machine notion
of computation. So it wasn't completely divorced from programming even back
then.
I believe you are thinking of Lambda Calculus. Not Lisp specifically.
Turing Machine and Lambda Calculus were both methods of defining
computation. Then Church-Turing equivalence was proven showing that they
are essentially the same thing and equally capable. Now we can think of
computation either way with modern processors. Mostly it has been done
using the Turing machine model but I think we are seeing a resurgence in
Lambda Calculus with the parallelism coming at us.
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