Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

[Torsten Bronger]

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.

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