Re: Why functional languages?

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From: Andrew Koenig
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 02:52

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In article <farrell.718241256@coral> farrell@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au (John Farrell) writes:

>   It seems to me that a syntax error in Lisp is very hard to make, as so long
> as you have the right number of brackets, everything is a valid program. The
> ability to make syntax errors is a virtue.

Well, no; it's easy to make syntax errors in Lisp.  It's just that if you're
running in interpreted mode, they aren't caught until you try to execute.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com

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