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From: Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Choosing a new language
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:58:30 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2007-12-29T09:58:30-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9fb6af6-19d7-409a-b1ea-5dc93324bd63@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20071229161119.72a5dccf@solaris.tower

On Dec 29, 3:11 pm, Achim Schneider <bars...@web.de> wrote:
[...]
> Lisp throws lambda calculus right into your face, which is a good
> thing. Scheme might be the better choice, it's lexically scoped:http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
> There are also video lectures with people with funny hats speaking wise
> words.

Common Lisp has lexical scoping as well (although defvar allows you to
declare dynamically scoped variables).

--
Arnaud




  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-29 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-28 15:23 Choosing a new language Rico Secada
2007-12-28 17:15 ` Joachim Durchholz
2007-12-28 17:18   ` smallpond
2007-12-28 20:54 ` John Nagle
2007-12-28 22:57   ` George Neuner
2007-12-29  9:30     ` Joachim Durchholz
2007-12-29  9:37       ` Paul Rubin
2007-12-29 18:16         ` Joachim Durchholz
2007-12-29 18:22           ` John Thingstad
2007-12-30 11:41             ` Joachim Durchholz
2007-12-29 13:41     ` Stephen Leake
2007-12-28 22:49 ` Gary Scott
2007-12-29  5:29 ` george.priv
2007-12-29  6:07 ` byte8bits
2007-12-29 22:56   ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-30  2:07     ` Rico Secada
2007-12-30  9:02       ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-30 20:52       ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-12-31  4:38   ` George Neuner
2008-01-02 19:36     ` kevin cline
2008-01-03  7:32       ` Tim Roberts
2008-01-07 17:25         ` kevin cline
2007-12-29 12:35 ` bearophileHUGS
2007-12-29 15:11 ` Achim Schneider
2007-12-29 17:58   ` Arnaud Delobelle [this message]
2007-12-29 18:39     ` John Thingstad
2007-12-29 15:40 ` j.khaldi
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