Brian Harvey scripsit: > I'm guessing (I could be wrong of course) that you're not old enough to > remember the days before interactive computing. People used to have to debug > with both hands tied behind their back, effectively -- there wasn't a keyboard > for them to /use/ their hands on. Lisp pioneered interactive program > development; it wouldn't surprise me if 1000 years from now it is remembered > more for that than for lambda, even.
That may or may not be true, but certainly the earliest Lisps predated the REPL; Lisp 1.5 is clearly designed for a batch environment. -- Values of beeta will give rise to dom! John Cowan (5th/6th edition 'mv' said this if you tried http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to rename '.' or '..' entries; see [email protected] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html) _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
