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>It's less of a big deal these days, but properly working lambda expressions were only available in Lisp until recently. I think Haskell and ML had lambda expr
by DeathArrow 2y ago
>It's less of a big deal these days, but properly working lambda expressions were only available in Lisp until recently.
I think Haskell and ML had lambda expressions since like 1990.
- imgabe 2y agoRecent, compared to Lisp
- IsTom 2y agoNumber of programmers that are in workforce that started before Standard ML (1983) is tiny and this argument would be relevant only to them.
- mikelevins 2y agoThe author of the referenced post is one of them, though.
- User23 2y agoThe word “properly” is not only working hard here, but perhaps pointing to deeper concepts. In particular, it implies a coherent design around scope and extent. And, much more indirectly, it points to time. EVAL-WHEN has finally made a bit of a stir outside Lisp.