Re: Lua is about to become history

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:

> > Paul Graham made a remark to the effect that all languages attempt to turn
> > themselves into LISP as they evolve.
>
> I guess he really thinks so; but it is not true :)
>
> "Original" Lisp had no lexical closures, no pattern matching, no
> coroutines (or threads or continuations, for that matter), no API to
> other languages, no exception handling, no module system, and I think it
> did not require proper tail calls.  (What it had always excelled was in
> "extensible semantis", aka macros.)

So, we count LISP itself among the languages that attempt to turn 
themselves into LISP. No contradiction there.

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