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I don't understand the Aristotelian vs. Platonist reference. Could you digress?
by pnathan 15y ago
I don't understand the Aristotelian vs. Platonist reference.
Could you digress?
- jamesgeck0 15y agoThe article quotes PG's Plato's Cave cave analogy about the power of Lisp. I think carsongross' "party school" is referencing Lyceum[1], the recreation/athletics school Aristotle was associated with. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyceum_(Classical) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyceum_(Classical)
- carsongross 15y agoLisp (and lisps) appeals to Platonists (as you can see in this article): they are minimal and pure. Gosu is not pure nor particularly minimal: it's rooted in the historical experience of Java software development, for better and for worse. As such, it is more of an Aristotelean language: practical, derived from experience and not particularly concerned with unification. I enjoy both languages, but I'm an Aristotle guy.