Carl Franklin

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Funny segment from Whadya Know on Programmer Language

I was listening to an archived Whadya Know show last night (http://www.notmuch.com/Show/2000/09.30.html) and Michael Feldman had a guest on talking about language, the origin of words, etc. Out of nowhere came a reference to an article in Visual Basic Programmer's Journal. I captured it and edited down a short excerpt which you can listen to at http://www.franklins.net/thunk.wma

It's funny to see how the rest of the world looks at us like we're crazy, or at the least intimidating.

Posted: Jun 30 2004, 05:20 PM by Carl Franklin | with 3 comment(s)

Comments

julie lerman said:

thunk before you port! LOL. Thanks I needed that ! :-)
# June 30, 2004 6:29 PM

Edneeis said:

That's pretty good, Thanks!
# July 1, 2004 2:35 AM

Dictionary of Programming Languages said:

Algol60 as originally defined had no language statements specifically for I/O, which is common today but unique back in the late 1950s.
One interesting aspect of Algol60 was its support for two kinds of subroutine parameter passing: call-by-value and call-by-name. The call-by-name method, which allowed Algol to support a kind of dynamic scoping (a la Lisp) was supported with a slow but flexible mechanism called a thunk.
# July 6, 2004 8:49 PM
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