Functional Squeak ( LUCID LINK )

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Sat Jun 3 16:51:53 UTC 2000


On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 09:05:33AM -0800, Alan Kay wrote:
> To all --
> 
> Long ago (late sixties, early seventies) there was a programming language
> called Lucid (I think by Ed Ashcroft, inspired by some of Peter Landin's
> ideas) that was a very successful attempt to reconcile two important ideas:
> (a) the fact that, in the Universe, Time seems to flow and State seems to
> change, and (b) that the functional style of programming can be very nice.
> The way Lucid does/did the reconciliation has an immediate mapping to
> "simulation style programming" in an OOPL. Dan Ingalls and I have been
> mildly interested for quite some time in eventually getting around to
> adapting Lucid's approach to Smalltalk.
> 
> Anyone know of an online reference to Lucid? (There was an excellent book
> about it 30 years ago ...).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan
> 


http://lucy.uvic.ca/LucidPrimer/LucidPrimer-Start.html


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