Re: A comment on language wars.

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From: Mark Friedman
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 17:25

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In article <R_V9_AC@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

   In fact, I don't see how a language that isn't interpreted nor object
   oriented could be said to have first class functions.

Although it is true that most LISP (and Scheme) and purely functional
language implementations have interpretors available, there is no
dependency relation between that fact and the fact that they have
first class functions.  Nor are most of those languages "object
oriented".

-Mark
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Mark Friedman
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu

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