Sujet : Re: Lisp history: IF, etc.
De : no.email (at) *nospam* nospam.invalid (Paul Rubin)
Groupes : comp.lang.lispDate : 05. Apr 2024, 02:29:32
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Alan Bawden <
alan@csail.mit.edu> writes:
It's a common misconception that McCarthy was trying to turn Lambda
Calculus into a programming language. ... He added LAMBDA (and LABEL)
because he needed LAMBDA in order to define recursive functions, but
as he himself often admitted, he didn't really understand Lambda
Calculus, he just needed the notation.
I see, yes, and this is confirmed by his History of Lisp article. His
Wikipedia biography also surprised me a bit. For some reason I had
thought of him as an academic mathematical logician who later somehow
got involved with computers, but it was more like the other way around.
Thanks.
| Date | Sujet | # | | Auteur |
| 2 Apr 24 |  Lisp history: IF, etc. | 56 | | Alan Bawden |
| 2 Apr 24 |   Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Kaz Kylheku |
| 3 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Gijs Hillenius |
| 3 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Gijs Hillenius |
| 3 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 49 | | Madhu |
| 3 Apr 24 |   Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 48 | | Alan Bawden |
| 3 Apr 24 |  Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 35 | | Paul Rubin |
| 3 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 34 | | Alan Bawden |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 32 | | Paul Rubin |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 5 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 3 | | Axel Reichert |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Paul Rubin |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Kaz Kylheku |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 26 | | Alan Bawden |
| 5 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 25 | | Paul Rubin |
| 5 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 24 | | Julieta Shem |
| 5 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Julieta Shem |
| 6 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 15 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 21 | | Paul Rubin |
| 16 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 20 | | Jeff Barnett |
| 16 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 2 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 16 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Jeff Barnett |
| 16 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 16 | | Paul Rubin |
| 16 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 15 | | Jeff Barnett |
| 16 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 14 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 16 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 12 | | Paul Rubin |
| 17 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 11 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 17 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 10 | | Paul Rubin |
| 17 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 9 | | Jeff Barnett |
| 17 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 8 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 17 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 7 | | Paul Rubin |
| 17 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 3 | | Madhu |
| 18 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 2 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 18 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Paul Rubin |
| 17 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 3 | | Ben Bacarisse |
| 18 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 2 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 18 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Stefan Monnier |
| 17 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Jeff Barnett |
| 17 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Stefan Ram |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Ben Bacarisse |
| 3 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 7 | | Kaz Kylheku |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 5 | | Alan Bawden |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 3 | | Kaz Kylheku |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 2 | | Kaz Kylheku |
| 4 Apr 24 | on levels of disappointment (Was: Re: Lisp history: IF, etc.) | 1 | | Julieta Shem |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Julieta Shem |
| 5 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Spiros Bousbouras |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 3 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 2 | | Alan Bawden |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Kaz Kylheku |
| 12 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 2 | | Alan Bawden |
| 12 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 3 | | Kaz Kylheku |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 2 | | Alan Bawden |
| 4 Apr 24 | Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |