"Douglas Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | "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
This prefactory clause is false and as such it turns what was a true statement into one that is not. Better to leave off such ad hominisms and stick with the bare true statement. | Scheme has a powerful syntax extension mechanism I did not and do not see this as relevant to the main points of my summary above. Python has powerful extension mechanisms too, but comparing the two languages on this basis is a whole other topic. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list