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That's the worse-is-better grand unified abstraction. The Right Thing, as any Lisp programmer can tell you, is lambda.
by bitwize 2y ago
That's the worse-is-better grand unified abstraction.
The Right Thing, as any Lisp programmer can tell you, is lambda.
- glompers 2y agoRichard Gabriel: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html (1991) https://www.dreamsongs.com/WIB.html https://www.dreamsongs.com/WIB.html (2000?)
- kazinator 2y agoAn actual Lisp programmer will tell you that the right thing depends on the situation. The right thing can be a lambda, a string, a symbol, a structure, a class object, a hash table, a vector, a list, a call to a foreign function, a syntactic abstraction, a bitmask, a load-time value, a pattern matcher, ...