Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

[alex goldman]

Artie Gold wrote:

> Torsten Bronger wrote:
>> Hallöchen!
>> 
>> Daniel Silva <dsilva at ccs.neu.edu> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>Shriram Krishnamurthi has just announced the following elsewhere; it
>>>might be of interest to c.l.s, c.l.f, and c.l.p:
>>>http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2005-April/008382.html
>>>
>>>
>>>                The Fate Of LAMBDA in PLT Scheme v300
>>>                                 or
>>>                  Lambda the Ultimate Design Flaw
>>>
>>>About 30 years ago, Scheme had FILTER and MAP courtesy of Lisp
>>>hackers who missed them from their past experience.  To this
>>>collection, Scheme added a lexically-scoped, properly-functioning
>>>LAMBDA.  But, despite of the PR value of anything with Guy
>>>Steele's name associated with it, we think these features should
>>>be cut from PLT Scheme v300.
>>>
>>>[...]
>> 
>> 
>> The whole text seems to be a variant of
>> <http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196>.
>> 
>> Tschö,
>> Torsten.
>> 
> Ya think? ;-)
> 
> --ag
> 

Wow, the original is much funnier than the "joke"! (Because it's meant
seriously)


"plus the lambda is slower than the list comprehension" - ROTFL!