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Subject: Re: function and lambda, again
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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
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* Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott@yale.edu>
| (It should also have occurred to them that the function named 'car'
| should be the *value* of 'car', thus eliminating 'function' entirely, as
| in Scheme, but that's another argument.)

  Some of us really, really *hate* Lisp1, and loathe every other
  programming language that forces us to conflate clearly distinct
  namespaces.

| All other functional languages get this right, including Scheme.

  Common Lisp and all the natural languages I know get it right.

  This kind of stupid troll is why Scheme freaks have their own forum.

///
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