Re: Is Lexical Binding The Norm Yet?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

I recall in McCarthy’s memoir of the origins of Lisp, he thought the
scoping issue (the “FUNARG problem”, I think he called it) was a simple
coding bug, and got one of his grad students to fix it.

  Stoyan wrote:

|McCarthy admits that he underestimated the problem. "I must
|confess that I regarded this difficulty as just a bug and
|expressed confidence that Steve Russell would soon fix it..."

  . Stoyan commented:

|The funarg event proves that McCarthy was now far from his
|LISP. He won the theoretical battle und searched for the next
|field. The mathematical theory of computation, time sharing,
|and proof checking were his new interests. LISP lost first
|priority.

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