History of T

We should point out that Emacs Lisp now has lexical scope. It took about 30 years, but it's here. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7654848/what-are-the-new-...

Being an extremely young programmer (I'm 35), I had never quite understood what "dynamic scoping" is - the whole idea that scoping can somehow be done differently than "like in all the languages" was foreign to me until a few minutes ago. If you're an ignorant youth like me, here's some clarification. Wikipedia's description is horrid, but C2's[0] is a gem: "In dynamic scoping, by contrast, you search in the local function first, then you search in the function that…

"I object to doing things that computers can do." --Olin Shivers "I start getting the shakes real bad around 10am, right before my advisor meetings. A 10 oz. Jack 'n Zac helps me get through the meetings without one of my students winding up with his severed head in a bowling-ball bag. They look at me funny; they think I twitch a lot. I'm not twitching. I'm controlling my impulse to snag my 9mm Sig-Sauer out from my day-pack and…

A totally tangential comment on CS at Yale during that era: Yale was very nice to the local towns and allowed high school students to take classes, so in 1981 I took their intro to CS. The bulk of the course was run in APL, with a bit of pascal at the end. But the thing I remember most? The computer room was in the basement of the music annex, which had a bunch of practice rooms. So the geeks…