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Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?


From: rm
Subject: Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 15:40:49 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:11:35PM -0400, Alex Shinn wrote:
> >>>>> "Klaus" == Klaus Schilling <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Klaus> Sam Tregar writes:
>     >> Would any Scheme users actually program anything in Perl?  I
>     >> can almost imagine Python, but Perl?
> 
>     Klaus> there are more jobs involving perl, and almost none
>     Klaus> involving scheme, so most schemers are forced into
>     Klaus> programming in different languages for a living.
> 
> And considering the most common alternatives (C, Java), Perl is very
> close to Scheme.  Much closer than Python, which doesn't support
> proper lambda expressions, and until 2.0 didn't have closures.  

Hmm, what do you consider "proper lambda" expressions? For anyone interessted
in python functional programming, have a look at 
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-prog.html.

   Ralf



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