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On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 4:27:39 AM UTC+5:30, Dr. Bigcock wrote:
> We can make Python like LISP:
>=20
> 1.  Make EVERYTHING the same kind of thing (call it "object").
> 2.  Let's make a lot of meta functions like super, instead of judicious u=
se of interpreter impositions.
> 3. Forget *practicality*.  All hail *purity*.
>=20
> Wait.  Someone's time machine broke.
>=20
> Mark

Hi Mark

The way you keep bringing up Lisp, =CE=BB-calculus, etc completely without =
relevance
to anything, I wonder if you had a bad experience with someone teaching the=
se
and thereabouts?

<Dark Secret>
Everyone knows that the average student is below average.
More true for the average teacher
</Dark Secret>

Yeah disasters (of all shapes and colors) strike and leave us scarred.
Isn't it more intelligent to pick up the pieces and move on than to keep=20
putting salt on the scars?

PS If you de-expletivize your name, maybe more people will pay attention to
what you want to say