Re: bindings and assignments (was: Re: continuations)

[Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs <address@hidden>]

   From: "Joe Marshall" <jrm@ccs.neu.edu>
   To: "Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs" <Guy.Steele@sun.com>, 
<swm@itasoftware.com>
   Cc: <Guy.Steele@sun.com>, <swm@itasoftware.com>, <dbtucker@cs.brown.edu>, 
<dherman@ccs.neu.edu>, <sk@cs.brown.edu>, <ll1-discuss@ai.mit.edu>
   Subject: Re: bindings and assignments (was: Re: continuations)
   Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:42:32 -0400
   
   > 
   > And you're right: we were not out to win over the Lisp programmers;
   > we were after the C++ programmers.  We managed to drag a lot of them
   > about halfway to Lisp.  
   
   ``Halfway''?   Halfway from *where*?!  Sure Java is closer than
   C++, but `Halfway to Lisp'? 

>From C++, of course.

   > Aren't you happy?
   
   I hack Lisp and Scheme for a living:  I'm happy.
   
And I am truly glad to hear you say that.

--Guy Steele