* Chris Kunzler <ckunzler@gmail.com> [120827 11:28]:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > My first scripting language (after decades of compiled languages)
> > was rebol (www.rebol.com) - developed by Carl Sassenrath, the lead
> > programmer on the Amiga OS project - it is very, very lisplike
> > (without the emphasis on parens) in that data and code is
> > interchangeable (as in lisp) and that variable names take the form
> > of 'symbols' (as in lisp). I built a lot of websites with it at
> > one time, but have phased out of it for the most part. See
> > www.rebol.com. The interchangeability of data and code as well as
> > the symbolic approach offers new insites to the more well-know
> > languages that do not have these features.
> >
> > I use the term lisp generically as there is common lisp, emacs
> > lisp (elisp), autolisp, many versions of scheme, and clojure - to
> > name a few. Parens make life easier for the language parser.
> >
>
> I normally hate overuse of parenthesis in writing, but the above
> comment was hilarious.
(setq (you(can(kiss())) 4 "my lawn mower") ;; psuedo-code (please disregard)
-- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com --------- To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.Received on Mon Aug 27 14:29:28 2012
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