Peter Wood <peter.wood / worldonline.dk> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:24:44AM +0900, Ben Tilly wrote: > > > Mathematicians don't learn Lisp. They learn things like > > Lesbegue integration. > > > > Fortunately some of them do: > > http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin/lisp.html > > Here's a quote from one of Chaitin's papers: > > "But let me start telling you why I think LISP should be loved by > mathematicians. I think it's the only computer programming language > that is mathematically respectable, because it's the only one that I > can prove theorems about!" Is this even true? How about Haskell, ML & others? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:schuerig / acm.org http://www.schuerig.de/michael/