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zrloopw
4y ago
In my opinion schools should first teach a language with goto (Basic, C), so students understand how the machine works. Basic is perfect for children. Once that is done, it makes more sense to move on to a functional language rather than an
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zrloopw
4y ago
McCarthy himself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression The project of defining M-expressions precisely and compiling them or at least translating them into S-expressions was neither finalized nor explicitly aban