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On 23/06/2011 10:15 PM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> On 6/23/2011 1:53 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>> Don't mind me - the last few years I've been questioning dogma. All of
>> it. :-)
>
> For what it's worth, I've spent the past few weeks starting to get
> really tricky with python. I think I hit the apex when I realized I was
> wanting a macro system in python, only shortly after writing functions
> that returned functions. I think "good OO design" got thrown out the
> window a while ago, although working in the same space as a bunch of
> programming language interns is certainly going to mutate your sense of
> good language design dogma.

Sounds like what you really want is a Lisp. Might I suggest Clojure?