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On 03/03/2014 22:25, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:
>> On 03Mar2014 09:17, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>   Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Imo the lesson here is never write in low level c. Use modern
>>>   languages with well designed exception handling.
>>
>> What, and rely on someone else's low level C?
>
> Someone needs to port Python to LISP.
>
> And then write a LISP interpreter in JavaScript.
>
> And an ECMAScript engine in Pike.
>
> And a Pike interpreter in Java.
>
> And a Java run-time written in ActionScript.
>
> It's turtles all the way down...
>
> ChrisA
>

Or write every language in Applescript which has 42 not very obvious 
ways of doing each and everything.

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

Mark Lawrence

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