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Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?
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Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me? |
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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
- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?, (continued)
- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?, tom, 2001/07/13
- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?, Matthias Koeppe, 2001/07/13
- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?, Sam Tregar, 2001/07/13
- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?, Matthias Koeppe, 2001/07/13
- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?, Sam Tregar, 2001/07/13
- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?, Klaus Schilling, 2001/07/13
- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?, Alex Shinn, 2001/07/13
- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?,
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- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?, Alex Shinn, 2001/07/14
- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/07/13
- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2001/07/14
- Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?, Martin Grabmueller, 2001/07/14
- Guile At Work (was Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?), Evan Prodromou, 2001/07/14
- Re: Guile At Work (was Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?), Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2001/07/14
Re: No gh_set_x()?, Dirk Esser, 2001/07/13
Re: No gh_set_x()?, Steven G. Johnson, 2001/07/16