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Subject: Re: English as a Programming language

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 00:27:13 07/15/01

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On July 13, 2001 at 22:34:34, Dan Andersson wrote:

Dan,

Have you ever seen a program from say 200 pages in LISP,
like for example Paradise from around 1979?

((((((((((((((((a b))))))))))))(a b c d))))))))(((((((()))))))))))

And that spreaded over a line or 50.

Complete mess man!


>I can't say that I agree about your assertions about functional programming
>languages, not now anyway. Both Common Lisp and OCaml rival the speed of C. Any
>problems with those languages are usually the result of naive implementations.

To just say they rival the speed of an imperative language is the utmost
nonsense i ever heart!



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