🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <STEPHEN.92Apr6203432@estragon.uchicago.edu>, stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu (Stephen P Spackman) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr6.193950.5862@newshost.lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
|> |[...]             You have yet to explain why you think the ability to 
|> |redefine globals is desirable (I don't think it is).
|> 
|> I think the redefinability of globals is a practical necessity when
|> writing languages with read-eval-print style interactivity that lack
|> first-class namespaces. Corrections welcome.

Hmm.  Ok, then I suspect my objection may be directed at languages
with read-eval-print style interactivity.  To be sure, I've learned
several such languages and liked none of them.  I've always attributed
my dislike to more specific notational quirks.  Perhaps though, it is
the whole concept of this kind of interactivity that's unfriendly.
As I said previously, J seems more like a fancy pocket-calculator
language than a programming language.

J. Giles