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The name is unfortunate, especially when the documentation sometimes omits to capitalize "Loop", which introduces even more confusion than there already is.
by eta_carinae 14y ago
The name is unfortunate, especially when the documentation sometimes omits to capitalize "Loop", which introduces even more confusion than there already is.
- poofyleek 14y agoThe name is unfortunate indeed. There were languages like LOOPS (Lisp Object Oriented Programming System) which evolved into CLOS. Common Lisp loop macro is a kind of special DSL of its own. While the oldest LOOP language may be from 1967 article by Meyer and Ritchie (DMR as in UNIX), a kind of mini language for computation of primitive recursive functions and dealing with computational complexity.