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   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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