[wellylug] Non-standard languages on Linux

[jumbophut]

On 5/10/05, jfouhy at paradise.net.nz wrote:

> I don't know lisp, but I always thought it was close to a direct implementation
> of the lambda calculus.. so I'm not sure how you can get more pure than lisp :-/
> (but ICBW)
> 

The original McCarthy paper was close to a direct implementation of
the lambda calculus (it didn't include the y-combinator, so couldn't
do recursion without the addition of another special form).  However,
any practical implementation of Lisp has allowed side-effects, and
allowed them in a less safe way than Haskell does (using monads).

I could go on for ever, but this post, which I originally tried to
make Linux-relevant, is sort of moving into foreign territory for the
LUG. :-)

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Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')