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Re^2: Perl functional programming systemby BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
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can someone please enumerate these seven features, and identify the one which is missing from Perl? I’ve often wondered.) See here. He's added an 8th: "history" which is something only a Lisp programmer could claim as important. Algol68 has history; try finding anyone using that. Of course; Algol's legacy is in all the features that it introduced to the programming language lexicon. Same can be said (or is at least claimed) by Lisp(ers). The missing feature is described above as "Uniform Syntax"; which basically means s-lists: the ability of the language to process itself as data and subsequently execute the resultant data as code. In short proper code macros (as opposed to C's text substitutions.) The real problem with programming Perl like it was Lisp -- al la HOP -- is that your 2015 Haswell will perform like a 1993 Pentium. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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