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Not especially insightful, imho. It focuses on syntactic details, and mostly skips functional programming completely. Better read the article The Next 700 Prog
by tuukkah 18y ago
Not 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