Re: REPL in Lisp

 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!

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