Re: re. footnotes [was Re: Variable Ponderance]
Re: re. footnotes [was Re: Variable Ponderance]
- Subject: Re: re. footnotes [was Re: Variable Ponderance]
- From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 14:48:48 -0700
On 10/1/2004 12:23, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Its syntax, procedural semantics and
> expression/statement distinction are much closer to those of
> Algol-derived languages; dynamic types and garbage collection could
> have just as easily and more directly arrived via Smalltalk; and it
> certainly doesn'tborrow the more unique [even now] and interesting
> features of Lisp. Thus comparing AS to Lisp seems to me to overrate
> and overemphasise an unimportant, ill-defined and quite likely
> indirect connection, and miss out on the much more important and very
> direct link to Smalltalk.
Fortunately, Jon Pugh probably remembers where the "immediate" influence
came from. He was there early. On the other hand, what may be necessary is
to know the "immediate" influence in the earlier HyperTalk design came from.
--John
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