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Thu, 12 Aug 2004
Subject: Paul Graham, McCarthy, Perl Python LISP
In my annotated Bibliography of the Early LISP History (1956--1959), I
mentioned the reason for eval in lisp was for purely theoretical
reasons.
http://funnt.ca/~funnt/bib/#St...
Well it was interesting today as I read the slashdot post http://developers.slashdot.org... The Python Paradox, by Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/pypa... . It talks about thr reasons people learn python. Less for money more for programming. I'm interested as I don't really care about Python that much I've done enough research to figure out it maps pretty closely to perl and that must be reason people have made perl parsers which parse python but run it in perl. Anyways he linked to his popular article Revenge Of Nerds http://www.paulgraham.com/icad... which started talking about the lisp eval function.
I like these Coincidences.