Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 08:43:35 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
royalties:
 

On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:50:27 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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Example below. Note the capture of the function parameters.

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We don’t call it “capture”: we call it “lexical binding”. All the good
languages do their name scoping that way.

 
Scott Meyers calls it "capture" and that's that!  <braaaaaapppp>

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I date my CS knowledge from the days of Tony Hoare, Donald Knuth and those
other greats. I don’t know who this “Scott Meyers” is, but I doubt they
were more than a snot-nosed babe-in-arms when the early compiler pioneers
figured out how to implement ALGOL-60.

He's almost as old as I!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Meyers

    He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Brown University and an M.S. in
    computer science from Stanford University. He conceived and, with Herb
    Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu, Dan Saks, and Steve Dewhurst, co-organized and
    presented the boutique (limited-attendance) conference, The C++ Seminar,
    which took place three times in 2001-2002.

Also:

    http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/12/good-to-go.html

    So consider me gone. 25 years after publication of my first academic papers
    involving C++, I'm retiring from active involvement with the language.

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