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by DeathArrow 439 days ago
>It's less of a big deal these days, but properly working lambda expressions were only available in Lisp until recently.

I think Haskell and ML had lambda expressions since like 1990.
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imgabe 439 days ago
Recent, compared to Lisp
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IsTom 439 days ago
Number of programmers that are in workforce that started before Standard ML (1983) is tiny and this argument would be relevant only to them.
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mikelevins 439 days ago
The author of the referenced post is one of them, though.
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User23 439 days ago
The word “properly” is not only working hard here, but perhaps pointing to deeper concepts.

In particular, it implies a coherent design around scope and extent. And, much more indirectly, it points to time. EVAL-WHEN has finally made a bit of a stir outside Lisp.

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BalinKing 439 days ago
Does this imply that lambda expressions in Haskell and ML don't have a "coherent design around scope and extent"? This is quite a claim, to be honest....
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User23 438 days ago
No, it doesn’t imply that. There are plenty of more popular languages that don’t though.
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