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 > evaluate those expressions on a computer is largely incidental (which > explains why there are so many sub-languages and interpreter > implementations out there).
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. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
