<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The 1986 IFIP World Congress was held in Trinity College Dublin in 1986, when I was a young postgrad.<div class="">John McCarthy was one of the many distinguished speakers that visited at that time.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was writing a "silicon compiler" as a DSL in a strict subset of ML, and was keen to understand these (for me, new/strange) functional languages a little better. So I asked him was the use of the LAMBDA notation in Lisp because the language was functional, or was it just a convenient notation for anonymous functions? His answer was short and very definitive: he said it was a convenient notation - he didn't consider LISP to be a functional language.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""> Andrew </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 Mar 2015, at 04:57, Rustom Mody <<a href="mailto:rustompmody@gmail.com" class="">rustompmody@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">There is this quote:<br class=""><blockquote class=""><i class="">It needs to be said very firmly that LISP is not a functional language
at all. My suspicion is that the success of Lisp set back the
development of a properly functional style of programming by at least
ten years.</i> David Turner</blockquote><br class=""></div>found here and there on the net <br class=""></div>eg <a href="http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1376090701" class="">http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1376090701</a><br class=""><br class=""></div>Does anyone have/know the original reference?<br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br clear="all" class=""></div><div class="">Thanks<br class=""></div><div class="">Rusi<br class=""></div><div class="">-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><br class=""><a href="http://blog.languager.org/" target="_blank" class="">http://blog.languager.org</a><br class=""><br class=""></div>
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<div class=""><div class="">Andrew Butterfield</div><div class="">School of Computer Science & Statistics</div><div class="">Trinity College</div><div class="">Dublin 2, Ireland</div></div>
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