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From: jonl%kuwait@lucid.COM (Jon L White)
Subject: Fixing the order of evaluation. Minimizing the unexpected.
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Date: 10 Apr 91 06:56:47 GMT
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In issue Scheme Digest V3 #182, matthias@titan.rice.edu quotes:

    "No amount of language design can {\it force} a programmer to
    write clear programs."

	LAMBDA: The Ultimate Imperative, 
	Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman, MIT 1976

Put another way, Academie Francaise notwithstanding you can still
say a lot of idiotic things in French (or write some convoluted,
inelegant programs in Lisp/Scheme.)  But just because fixed-order
evaluation won't cure code opacity doesn't mean that nondeterminism 
is always A GOOD THING . . .


-- JonL --