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0 pointseastWestMath9y ago0 comments

Or maybe people could just become familiar with ML-style languages? The basic syntax shouldn't take more than an hour or two to pick up.

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skybrian9y ago

Well sure, but you could say the same thing about Lisp.

eastWestMathOP9y ago

Well they're both the lambda calculus, Lisp just had parentheses.

kazinator9y ago

Does lambda calculus have character strings, structures, exceptions, symbols, mutable variables, quoting code as data, macros and three different kinds of object equality?

fbreduc9y ago

it does have symbols

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