Re: REPL in Lisp

On 2024-07-13 13:08:53 +0000, Aidan Kehoe said:

 Ar an triú lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh Athel Cornish-Bowden:
  > On 2024-07-13 07:24:27 +0000, Aidan Kehoe said:
 >
 > >  > > [...] There are many new terms coined for old concepts. Like
 > >  > > “capture” for “lexical binding”, or “dependency injection” for
 > >  > > “callback”.
 > >  >
 > >  > Lexical binding does not imply closure/capture.
 > >
 > > I’ve never seen “capture” used as a general term for closures or for
 > > lexical scope in this way; are we sure it’s what was meant?
 >
 > As you (and António) have a genuine interest in language, can you explain to
 > me what this thread is doing in sci.lang?
 My mistake, the Hen started the thread in this group (among others) and I
should have dropped sci.lang.
  > Back in 1968, when many universities wanted to drop the German requirement
 > for studying chemistry, on the grounds that by then virtually all
 > publications on chemistry were in English (not necessarily a good thing, but
 > that's how it was, and is). Rather than openly admitting what they were
 > doing, they changed the German requirement to a "language requirement", and
 > pretended that Fortran was a language. I think everyone realized that that
 > was just a trick to avoid saying what the real motivation was.
 As if reading the mid-century chemistry literature was going to be suddenly
irrelevant!

Of course, but that's what our elders and betters decreed.
--
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly in England until 1987.