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Article #3257Re: The powerlessness of Lisp
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 18:21
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 18:21
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In article <1991Mar26.172536.12178@linus.mitre.org> john@mingus.mitre.org (John D. Burger) writes: > A ``REAL source level debugger'' and incremental compilation are > functions of the environment. > Fine. Then the distribution of languages with these features should be > independent of whether those languages have dynamic typing. This > doesn't appear to be the case, however. Just for the hell of it, let me point out that the two languages that have the greatest number of units out with these features *are* statically typed: Forth and Basic. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: The powerlessness of Lisp Message-ID: <2QAARF@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <1991Mar26.172536.12178@linus.mitre.org> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 18:21:40 GMT