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Re: Let's make Python into LISP

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On 03/06/2015 22:22, 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, I wonder if you had a bad experience with someone teaching these
> 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
> putting salt on the scars?
>
> PS If you de-expletivize your name, maybe more people will pay attention to
> what you want to say
>

Please stop replying to this brain dead pot smoking hippy. My mail 
filters work perfectly to keep him away from my inbox, so I'm not 
interested in seeing his complete and utter garbage effectively 
forwarded on from somebody else, thank you.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

Thread

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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