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From: Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method
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On 06/24/2011 01:48 AM, Fuschia, President-Elect of the Bright 
Purplish-Green Council wrote:
> 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?

Since it's not Java related, I don't want to dwell on it, but this 
project has constraints which prohibit most languages. Python is pretty 
much the only tenable language (legacy code being in python makes a big 
difference, too ;-) ).

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth