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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@cdegroot/116086771614712320

Always nice to see a book about an interesting programming language. Although I'd argue that Haskell is the "greatest programming language", no doubt that Lisp was the father of the functional programming languages and has been very influential.

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Show threadGalaxy MapFeb 19

Even John Backus, the creator of Fortran, roasted computer scientists for sticking with low level imperative languages and advocated moving to functional programming.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359576.359579

Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?: a functional style and its algebra of programs: Communications of the ACM: Vol 21, No 8

Conventional programming languages are growing ever more enormous, but not stronger. Inherent defects at the most basic level cause them to be both fat and weak: their primitive word-at-a-time style of programming inherited from their common ancestor—...

Communications of the ACM
Show threadGalaxy MapFeb 19
Not that I'm any better. I use TypeScript and Python, both of which borrow a few functional programming ideas from Lisp but are at heart just versions of Fortran.
Show threadAstroHydeFeb 19
@galaxy_map haha, this is exactly the type of awesome programming argument I joined #mastodon for 💫