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

danb <sogwaldan@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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!"

I know you're (probably) joking, but my main issue with lambda is that
it's IMHO very hard to type on a QWERTY keyboard. Plus, for such an
important and much used feature the name is arguably too long anyway. I
mean, we've got CAR and CDR, I'd go with FUN or even LMB. I don't even
care that much about readability for something so fundamental. (As I
said before, I really like Arc's "fn")

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