Skip to content

Tag Archives: Scheme

Arc in a nutshell: It’s no Dylan (and that’s too bad)

Friday, February 1, 2008

What’s the point of [Arc][1]? Infix-syntax [Dylan][2] is a much, much better language, especially once you add in the changes and features from the [Dylan Design Notes][3] and the infix version (but keep the prefix syntax). Really, Dylan is pretty much the Ultimate Lisp in a lot of ways. Arc is essentially `(decr Scheme)` with […]

Filed in Technology | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Programming language terminology lesson: Closures

Monday, June 5, 2006

In reading Beyond Java by Bruce Tate, I saw the following: Java’s syntax lacks features like closures and code blocks (which let you pass a block of code as an argument). Argh! In the vast majority of languages that support them, a block is a closure! Blocks, closures, lambdas — they’re all just different words […]

Filed in Technology | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Steve Yegge describes what’s wrong with Lisp

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Steve Yegge, Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp: You’ve all read about the Road to Lisp. I was on it for a little over a year. It’s a great road, very enlightening, blah blah blah, but what they fail to mention is that Lisp isn’t the at the end of it. Lisp is just the […]

Filed in Technology | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)