it seems like a few weeks ago... but actually it was more like 30 years ago that i was programming in C, and
i'd get [Segmentation Fault] (core dumped) [Bus Error] (core dumped) [access violation] (core dumped) [bad address] and, yes, some of us sometimes analyzed the core file. i (vaguely) fantasized that someday programming would be much more pleasant ---------- and that programming language would be something like Common Lisp with a more Algol, Pascal (C) like syntax. i've been using Python for 3,4 years and .............. for the first several weeks... whenever i used Python... all i could think of....was -------- this is really Lisp (inside) with a thin veil of Java/Pascal syntax.......... ----- that everything is first converted (macro-expanded) into (intermediated) Lisp code, and then......... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list