In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> the importance of naming of functions.
>
Lisp is *so* early a language (1960?), preceeded mainly only by Fortran
(1957?)?,
and for sure the far-and-away the first as a platform for *so many* concepts
of computer-science, eg lexical vs dynamic ("special") variables, passing
*unnamed* functions as args (could Algol 60 also do something like that,
via something it maybe termed a "thunk"), maybe is still the only one
in which program and data have the same representation -- that it'd
seem logical to use it's terminology in all languages.
>From C is the very nice distinction between "formal" and "actual" args.
And from algol-60, own and local -- own sure beats "static"!
And so on.
To me, it's too bad that that hacker-supreme (and certified genius)
Larry W. likes to make up his own terminology for Perl. Sure makes
for a lot of otherwise-unnecessary pages in the various Perl texts,
as well as posts here.
Of course, a whole lot better his terminology than no language at all!
David
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