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Re: Appreciation / Financial support
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Appreciation / Financial support |
Date: |
Wed, 30 May 2012 22:55:26 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Matthew Collett <address@hidden> writes:
> On 30/05/2012, at 9:10 pm, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Lua with "separate statements with
>> semicolon or newline or space, I don't care" is nicer, but it is
>> procedural, not functional,
>
> And right there is an excellent reason to prefer it to Scheme. There
> are some people who really like functional programming, but for most
> people functional programming is arcane and confusing, and procedural
> far more natural. To tempt ordinary users to dip their toe into
> scripting, a procedural language is the way to go.
Having to cut an argument off in mid-sentence for being able to counter
it does not exactly overwhelm.
#1 is a shallower dip than #{ return 1 #}.
--
David Kastrup
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