Re: Page 76 of OCaml by John Whitington ???

LISP is awesome because it allows you to generate code that fits what you want.

The way I understand it is, if you're familiar with what ppx is and does, imagine having a language that's built around making code that can fit into things like that - when you finish a solution, you can annotate it onto anything basically. It's like generics or type inference, but with whole modules and data structures instead of just a single function. 

    On Thursday, March 24, 2016 5:02 PM, "Douglas Lewit [email protected] [ocaml_beginners]" <[email protected]> wrote:
 

     Thanks Hendrik.  I'll have to find that paper by Peter Landin.  The author's name is strongly familiar, but right now I can't quite place it.  My AI professor said that LISP and other functional programming languages are great for AI, but I didn't quite get his explanation.  ( And to be fair, his explanation was pretty short and quick. )  Something about how AI requires the manipulation of symbolic values ( as in computer algebra ) and for that sort of thing functional programming is better suited than other programming paradigms.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Hendrik Boom [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] <[email protected]> wrote:

     On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:49:44AM -0500, Douglas Lewit [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:

> 
> P.S. I almost forgot. Is LISP considered the great granddaddy of all
> functional programming languages? Is it correct to say that OCaml is
> descended from LISP? Thanks for the feedback.

I'd say so, yes.

Since you are asking about history, perhaps you'd like some:

One of the important papers, while not explicitly about functional 
programming, that liberated functional programming from LISP was
"The Next 700 Programming Languages", by Peter Landin.

-- hendrik
   

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