Re: Paul Graham's Arc is released today... what is the long term impact?

On Feb 12, 6:12 am, Espen Vestre <es...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't understand all this hostility to lambda.

The name "lambda" is terrifying to newbies. "ZOMG, what
is that??? You mean it's not a regular function? I can
hardly understand macros and now there's a THIRD kind of
function-like thingy? With a name from a language I don't
even know, this must be some kind of bizarre hyper-function
or something!"

--Dan
www.prairienet.org/~dsb/


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