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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Let's make Python into LISP
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 22:46:18 +0100
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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 
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-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence