Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!brl-adm!brl-smoke!smoke!LINNDR%VUENGVAX.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA From: LINNDR%VUENGVAX.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Swap Macro (a long time ago at least) Message-ID: <2098@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Thu, 10-Jul-86 17:58:20 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.2098 Posted: Thu Jul 10 17:58:20 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jul-86 04:03:54 EDT Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA Lines: 25 In article <2498@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> ambar@mit-eddie.ARPA (Jean Marie Diaz) writes: >In article <1321@psivax.UUCP> friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes: >>In article <1946@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) writes: >>> >>> I haven't seen call-by-name included in any language since Algol. >> >> What about LISP? Or is LISP older than Algol? > >LISP and Pascal are both descendants of Algol 60. >-- This is a very curious assertion to make considering that LISP was also described in 1960. I would be interested in hearing why you think LISP is an ALGOL derivative. (we may be straying a bit from the topic of this newslist) David Linn ---------------------------------------------------------- ARPANET(?): LINNDR%VUENGVAX.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU BITNET: LINNDR@VUENGVAX.BITNET CSNET: drl@vanderbilt.csnet Ma Bell: (615)322-7924 USPS: P.O. 3241-B Vanderbilt Nashville, TN 37235 UUCP: ...psuvax1!vuengvax.bitnet!linndr