2026-04-30 16:31 UTC
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot "The imperative style was very much frowned upon"
It really was not. It was the normal way of writing code. Bunch of TAGBODY, GOTO and other things. SETF pre-dates Common Lisp by many years.
Here is some old fun EH code: https://tumbleweed.nu/r/attic/sys46/file?ci=tip&name=lispm2/eh.316&ln=120-149
That uses SETF.
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@hayley@social.applied-langua.ge 2026-04-30 16:38
@amszmidt@mastodon.social @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @janneke@todon.nl @vnikolov@ieji.de @spook@pleroma.m68k.church "I still think it's best to think of Common Lisp as not Lisp at all but more Fortran-with-brackets" fucking what