Subj : Re: Compiler and an interpreter
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 01:36 pm

In article <42ee584b$0$14656$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>, 
usenet@jdh30.plus.com says...
> Rob Thorpe wrote:

> > It isn't really Lisp written in C++, this would be done differently in
> > Lisp. 
> 
> I think Gerry is getting at the idea of using functional composition via
> templates in C++. I wasn't doing that. I had tried to do it before but,
> although the compilers were happy with the code, I found the syntax so
> unwieldy that I never got my head around it.

Well, I was making a general comment on the style of programming - I 
said Lisp instead of Occam in order to be less inflammatory!

What it was doing I did not try to investigate in detail.  
 
> For example, computing the maximum of 5 and each element of a list in OCaml:
> 
>   # List.map (max 5) [1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9];;
>   - : int list = [5; 5; 5; 5; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9]

And using simple iterative methods in C++ it's just as easy.  

- Gerry Quinn

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