"Douglas Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > I think this points to where Sussman went wrong in his footnote and | > Alan in his defense thereof. Flexibility of function -- being able | > to do many different things -- is quite different from flexibility | > of syntax | | I think you are setting up a false dichotomy.
I think this denial of reality is your way of avoiding admitting, perhaps to yourself, that your god Sussman made a mistake. | One that is related to | the false unification that annoying people used to always make when | they would perpetually argue that it wasn't important which | programming language you programmed in, as they are all Turing | equivalent anyway. Well, I sure as hell don't want to write all my | programs for a Turning machine, and a Turing machine is certainly | Turing equivalent! Diversionary crap unrelated to the previous discussion. Bye. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
