RE: Again sorry to talk about APL

2001-03-15 Thread Carl W. Brown
Re: Again sorry to talk about APL * Dan Kolis | | APL and LISP are the deviants in expecting programs to be like | mathematics and aspire to goals like provability; Lisp is indeed a deviant among programming languages, but not in any of the ways you suggest. The really sad thing about it is that nob

Re: Again sorry to talk about APL

2001-03-14 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Dan Kolis | | APL and LISP are the deviants in expecting programs to be like | mathematics and aspire to goals like provability; Lisp is indeed a deviant among programming languages, but not in any of the ways you suggest. The really sad thing about it is that nobody seems to be able to say a

Again sorry to talk about APL

2001-03-14 Thread Dan Kolis
In the dewey decimal system numbers start at 1 for highest levels of abstraction and go down to 999 for details. So theology is up in the 1,2,3 and steam engine operation around 600. Computer science is in the single digits, and programming is around 621 or so. APL and LISP are the deviants in ex