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Re: StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp

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Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch>:

> Heard just yesterday: "All languages eventually converge to Lisp."
>
> A quick search also brought up "Whoever does not understand LISP, is
> doomed to reinvent it!"

I've long admired lisp, scheme in particular. The better I understand
it, the more respect I have for it.

To think that the ultimate software engineering truth was enunciated in
1936 by Alonso Church. The rest is just commentary.

Then there's the only function you ever need:

   (define iota
       (lambda (x)
         ((x (lambda (x)
               (lambda (y)
                 (lambda (z)
                   ((x y) (x z))))))
          (lambda (x) (lambda (y) x)))))

(<URL: http://semarch.linguistics.fas.nyu.edu/barker/Iota/>)


Marko

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StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-10 21:56 -0400
  Re: StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-08-11 09:15 +0000
    Re: StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-08-11 13:32 +0200
      Re: StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-11 15:30 +0300
  Re: StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-08-12 16:13 +0300

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