Omer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> :<Cough, choke> Since when is Perl a "subset of LISP?!" McCarthy would
> :sure laugh his guts off if he heard that...
> Since perl supports closures, anonimous functions and first order
> functions, it is surely closer to LISP than to C. McCarthy laghed when he
> heard about LISP interpreter, so I suppose he would laugth here ...
All the features above make Perl "somehow similar in features to LISP"
- and no way closer. It is not based on the LISP syntax and it is a
LISPer's worst nightmare in the sense of "syntactic sugar to syntax
rules" ratio... In fact, TCL in that sense is much closer to LISP than
Perl...
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Alexander L. Belikoff
Bloomberg L.P.
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