Comments on: … Because the lack of State will always be ensured … The Land Of Lisp https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/05/because-the-lack-of-state-wil/ Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:27:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Uncle Glenny https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/05/because-the-lack-of-state-wil/#comment-507579 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:27:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/05/because-the-lack-of-state-wil/#comment-507579 Real Men edit in Teco, anyway.

]]> By: Uncle Glenny https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/05/because-the-lack-of-state-wil/#comment-507578 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:20:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/05/because-the-lack-of-state-wil/#comment-507578 Every Object swellls with State; all is Pious, all is Great.

— From Handel’s opera Solomon

]]> By: TylerD https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/05/because-the-lack-of-state-wil/#comment-507577 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:29:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/05/because-the-lack-of-state-wil/#comment-507577 Lisp doesn’t actually lack state, it’s an impure functional language with mutable data types. Haskell, on the other hand, is pure lambda calc, and only simulates stateful computation through monads.

]]> By: Alan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/05/because-the-lack-of-state-wil/#comment-507576 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:31:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/05/because-the-lack-of-state-wil/#comment-507576 How come nobody told me about this!!!!

Because for the last 30yrs LISP has been used almost exclusively by CS professor’s to legally torture their students.

]]> By: itzac https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/05/because-the-lack-of-state-wil/#comment-507575 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:51:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/05/because-the-lack-of-state-wil/#comment-507575 “…Because the lack of State will always be ensured…”

Sounds like a libertarian’s wet dream.

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