Re: let, let*, oh, why [was: Elisp - Function returning a list]

[Emanuel Berg]

Jean Louis wrote:

> That is maybe programming language Ada, but not Ada
> Lovelace. Then what about
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage who is father
> of computers?

There have always been mechanical machines to do counting...
most likely there were such devices and solutions even during
the stone age! Only they are long lost because they were made
out of wood.

And if you don't have a computer, and can't build one for
practical reasons, one can always do a theoretical model like
Alan Turing and have them execute for arbitrary/sound input,
only then, one has to do computation by hand.

Oh no, computer age year zero is 1947, USA, the transistor.

Or more exactly, 1947-12-23. [1]

$ time-from 1947-12-23 # [2]
73y 3d

[1] https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200011/history.cfm

[2] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/time

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