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I saw that bit about McCarthy too. I wonder if his point was that while you can do functional programming in lisp, you can do a lot of other non-functional-pro
by tunesmith 12y ago
I saw that bit about McCarthy too. I wonder if his point was that while you can do functional programming in lisp, you can do a lot of other non-functional-programming stuff too, and so in that sense he didn't see Lisp as an implementation of lambda calculus.
- agumonkey 12y agoAccording to D. Gabriel, the imperative forms were added later to seduce scientists used to FORTRAN algorithms. But Steele's interview of McCarthy makes it clear that Lisp is more a natural accident turning into compressed carbon than the implementation of an apriori concept.