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Some are in it to kill the competitors, and for some others, "beautiful internal mathematical consistency" is its own reward. But surely a certain essay about V
by babygoat 11y ago
Some are in it to kill the competitors, and for some others, "beautiful internal mathematical consistency" is its own reward. But surely a certain essay about Viaweb is not obscure?
- AnimalMuppet 11y ago> But surely a certain essay about Viaweb is not obscure? Maybe not. (I presume you're referring to the Blub essay.) But that essay doesn't advocate FP; it advocates Lisp, with macros. I'm pretty sure PG would say that Lisp is looking down the power curve even at Haskell, because Haskell is not homoiconic, and you can write FP code in Lisp if you want to. But one still wouldn't call Lisp an FP language. So I don't know whether that essay really goes where you want to go...