in reply to list reversal closure

Joel Spolsky wrote an interesting article on the subject : Can your programming language do this?
He comes to this conclusion:
Ok. I hope you're convinced, by now, that programming languages with first-class functions let you find more opportunities for abstraction, which means your code is smaller, tighter, more reusable, and more scalable.
Is it the "someone else" you mentioned ? :)

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Re^2: list reversal closure
by apotheon (Deacon) on Aug 21, 2006 at 19:59 UTC

    'Fraid not. I've read that particular essay (several times), along with one by Paul Graham that touches on much the same thing, but it was actually list handling that was brought up by the person with whom I was discussing languistic tests and not the use of lexical closures.

    I'd certainly be happy to have a conversation like this with Joel Spolsky at some point, though. The guy's full of good ideas.

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