From: me@yahoo.com

On 2024-07-13 13:08:53 +0000, Aidan Kehoe said:

>  Ar an triú lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh Athel Cornish-Bowden:
>
>  > On 2024-07-13 07:24:27 +0000, Aidan Kehoe said:
>  >
>  > >  > > [...] There are many new terms coined for old concepts. Like
>  > >  > > “capture” for “lexical binding”, or “dependency
> injection” for
>  > >  > > “callback”.
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Lexical binding does not imply closure/capture.
>  > >
>  > > I’ve never seen “capture” used as a general term for closures or
for
>  > > lexical scope in this way; are we sure it’s what was meant?
>  >
>  > As you (and António) have a genuine interest in language, can you
> explain to
>  > me what this thread is doing in sci.lang?
>
> My mistake, the Hen started the thread in this group (among others) and I
> should have dropped sci.lang.
>
>  > Back in 1968, when many universities wanted to drop the German requirement
>  > for studying chemistry, on the grounds that by then virtually all
>  > publications on chemistry were in English (not necessarily a good thing,
but
>  > that's how it was, and is). Rather than openly admitting what they were
>  > doing, they changed the German requirement to a "language requirement",
and
>  > pretended that Fortran was a language. I think everyone realized that that
>  > was just a trick to avoid saying what the real motivation was.
>
> As if reading the mid-century chemistry literature was going to be suddenly
> irrelevant!

Of course, but that's what our elders and betters decreed.

--
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly
in England until 1987.

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