From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    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!   
      
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   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
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