Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2
Mark Janssen
dreamingforward at gmail.com
Wed May 8 23:53:42 EDT 2013
> "Lisp will remain the pinnacle of lambda calculus" ??? : Surreal
> feeling of falling into a 25-year time-warp
>
> Read this http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87.pdf
>
> Just for historical context:
> When this was written in the 80s:
> - The FP languages of the time -- KRC, SASL, Miranda, Orwell -- were
> elegant and academic
> - Lisp was quasi-industrial-strength but as Wadler argues above, was
> not doing good service to functional programming
Fascinating.
--
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington
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