Re: ignorance and intolerance in computing communties

2007-05-02 Thread Pillsy
ng why you'd expect to have a conversation about one concrete and specialized topic in a venue devoted to an entirely different concrete and specialized topic. Cheers, Pillsy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-12 Thread Pillsy
Pascal Costanza wrote: > Pillsy wrote: [...] > > When I first read PCL (which was my introduction to Lisp) I thought > > LOOP was really neato. Once I actually started using it for things that > > weren't so simple, I began to really hate it. I think that having a >

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-12 Thread Pillsy
teration is a superb idea, but I don't think LOOP is it. That being said, there's a portable alternatives out there that I like way better, and I still use LOOP for dashing stuff off one-liners at the REPL. Cheers, Pillsy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-11 Thread Pillsy
i] for (aref i); this is something I periodically consider doing. Cheers, Pillsy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-11 Thread Pillsy
gs in Python, too, so I'd be surprised if this were a make-or-break issue for Pythonistas. Cheers, Pillsy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-08 Thread Pillsy
han Python, and CLisp really blows its doors off. Cheers, Pillsy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list