"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's the situation. Python is making inroads at MIT, Scheme home turf. > The co-developer of Scheme, while writing about some other subject, tosses > in an off-the-wall slam against Python. Someone asks what we here think. > I think that the comment is a crock and the slam better directed, for > instance, at Scheme itself. Hence 'he should look in a mirror'.
You are ignoring the fact that Scheme has a powerful syntax extension mechanism (i.e., hygenic macros), which means that anyone in the world can basically extend Scheme to include practically any language feature they might like it to have. |>oug -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
