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0 pointsandrewcooke13y ago0 comments

so the article is misleading, isn't it? it says "Lisp programming language, invented in 1958 by John McCarthy. Lisp pioneered many fundamental computer science concepts, including closures", but closures were first created elsewhere - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(computer_science)#Hist...

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pat_shaughnessy13y ago· 1 in thread

Oops - I missed that in my research. Yes, I agree this sentence is misleading; I'll update the text later on today. I suppose it's only true that Lisp (specifically Scheme) was the first widely used implementation of closures.

andrewcookeOP13y ago

yes, i think that would be a better way of phrasing it. it's weird how old scheme is (1975 - 37 years old).

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