Re: Scripting

Subject: Re: Scripting
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 25 2000 - 13:00:07 CDT

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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Randy Kramer wrote:

> Aside: Scheme a descendant of Algol? Wow! Someday I'll have to dig
> into how they support that. ;-)
>

IIRC, the original Algol was Algol 67 (?). Scheme is a dialect of LISP
(Which does NOT stand for Lots of Insipid Stupid Parenthesis :-). LISP
was invented by John McCarthy (originator of the term AI) in 1956. So I
find the Algol->Scheme relationship unlikely.
           
                                     sam th
                                     sam@uchicago.edu
                                http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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