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A slight nitpick, but I like how we went from Scheme's "define" over the classic "defun", through Clojure's "defn" and Bel's "def" to PicoLisp's "de". Looking f

by tmtvl 3y ago

A slight nitpick, but I like how we went from Scheme's "define" over the classic "defun", through Clojure's "defn" and Bel's "def" to PicoLisp's "de". Looking forward to seeing the next S-expression language defining functions with "d".

slim 3y ago
nitpick : picolisp is from 1988
- tmtvl 3y ago
  Yeah, the list isn't in chronological order (I believe "defun" was standardised years before the algorithmic programming language Scheme was conceived), it's more about the d-evolution.