From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: f8899,3c634d3864722c74 X-Google-Thread: 10dd18,3c634d3864722c74 X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,3c634d3864722c74 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3c634d3864722c74 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8899,gid10dd18,gidf4fd2,gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Arnaud Delobelle Newsgroups: comp.lang.haskell, comp.lang.python, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Choosing a new language Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:58:30 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <20071228162351.f29a3ce4.coolzone@it.dk> <20071229161119.72a5dccf@solaris.tower> NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.46.172.40 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1198951111 7041 127.0.0.1 (29 Dec 2007 17:58:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.46.172.40; posting-account=2eA9vAoAAADm1JshCzAYJyjGEDgNaSe1 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.haskell:1006 comp.lang.python:161109 comp.lang.lisp:76473 comp.lang.ada:19064 Date: 2007-12-29T09:58:30-08:00 List-Id: On Dec 29, 3:11=A0pm, Achim Schneider 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://mit= press.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