Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!zurich.ai.mit.edu!markf From: markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Mark Friedman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: A comment on language wars. Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 17:25:04 GMT References: Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab. Lines: 20 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.ferranti.com's message of 4 Mar 91 17:16:24 GMT In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: In fact, I don't see how a language that isn't interpreted nor object oriented could be said to have first class functions. Although it is true that most LISP (and Scheme) and purely functional language implementations have interpretors available, there is no dependency relation between that fact and the fact that they have first class functions. Nor are most of those languages "object oriented". -Mark -- Mark Friedman MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab 545 Technology Sq. Cambridge, Ma. 02139 markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu