On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:10:53PM -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 02:04 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:
However you might be able to argue that FORTRAN also was able to overload functions, and since FORTRAN predates LISP...
Fortran was designed as a programming language. LISP was designed to make programming difficult so that the users would learn symbolic logic. LISP was never intended to produce working code, only exercises for the student.
(LISP stands for "Lots of Imbedded Silly Parentheses.)
As a student, before I discovered vim for syntax highlighting, I used MS Excel. It highlights parens with different colors, you can can remember which matches with which.
Ahh.. the joys of LISP. Brings back memories.
Jeremy