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Re: Let's make Python into LISP

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2015-06-03 22:01 -0700
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Subject	Re: Let's make Python into LISP
From	"Dr. Bigcock" <dreamingforward@gmail.com>

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On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 4:23:08 PM UTC-5, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 4:27:39 AM UTC+5:30, Dr. Bigcock wrote:
> > We can make Python like LISP:
> > 
> > 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 use of interpreter impositions.
> > 3. Forget *practicality*.  All hail *purity*.
> > 
> > Wait.  Someone's time machine broke.
> > 
> > Mark
> 
> Hi Mark
> 
> The way you keep bringing up Lisp, λ-calculus, etc completely without relevance
> to anything,

No, you're wrong.  It IS relevant:  see point #3 to decipher.  Trying to make everything inherit from object is/was the wrong move.  It's not specific to Python, it just happens to be where I work.

> I wonder if you had a bad experience with someone teaching these
> and thereabouts?

Not at all.  I love LISP.  But fuck can we agree we don't want to re-create it?  Why, you might ask, since LISP is awesome?  Because, we have PRACTICAL issues, like machine limitations.

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

That's not much of a secret for those of us who've been in academia.

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

But I want people to believe in me for what I know, not for some superficial non-reason.  HAHAHAHAHA

mark

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Let's make Python into LISP "Dr. Bigcock" <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2015-06-02 15:57 -0700
  Re: Let's make Python into LISP Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-06-03 14:22 -0700
    Re: Let's make Python into LISP Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-03 22:46 +0100
      Re: Let's make Python into LISP Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-06-03 18:54 -0700
        Re: Let's make Python into LISP Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-06-03 19:59 -0700
    Re: Let's make Python into LISP "Dr. Bigcock" <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2015-06-03 22:01 -0700

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