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History of computer programming language statements
- tuukkah 18y agoNot especially insightful, imho. It focuses on syntactic details, and mostly skips functional programming completely. Better read the article The Next 700 Programming Languages about ISWIM, say. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISWIM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISWIM And Lisp has a lot of interesting history: http://www.paulgraham.com/lisphistory.html http://www.paulgraham.com/lisphistory.html
- rflrob 18y agoNot just is it not especially insightful, I'm finding the prose a little hard to get through. Granted, this is presentation and not content, but my complaint are the sort of thing a decent editor ought to clean up: there's all sorts of syntax oddities and typos. It almost doesn't feel like native English