Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

[Artie Gold]

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

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