Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Kartik Agaram Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Add nested-function support in a language the based on a stack-machine Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:27:13 -0700 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 8 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <18-03-055@comp.compilers> References: <6effed5e-6c90-f5f4-0c80-a03c61fd2127@gkc.org.uk> <18-03-042@comp.compilers> <18-03-049@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="74249"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: Lisp, history Posted-Date: 13 Mar 2018 16:55:29 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2001 On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:09 PM, William Clodius wrote: > Didn't Lisp have first order functions and closures in 58? If I remember > the discussion of APT in the HOPL I conference proceedings correctly it > surprisingly had the equivalent of structs. Lisp had first-class functions but closures require lexical scope, which didn't land until Scheme in the '70s.