Re: Software Needs Philosophers

He means Lisp macros. Lisp macros are nothing like the crippled C++ macros that people tend to think of. Roedy Green wrote: > On 21 May 2006 02:15:31 -0700, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > > > Java has lots of macro languages, including C++'s

Re: John Bokma harassment

Five is not excessive when they are on topic and they are on topic. If you don't like his posts ignore them, killfile them, whatever. I took the time to write his ISP a supporting email because it is important to keep unpopular speech, even more than popular speech, free. Censoring usenet serves no

Re: Swaying A Coder Away From Python

I usually refer to it as "VILE!". As in what Vile thing do I have before me. Emacs all the way baby! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: CRC calculation

Check out http://docs.python.org/lib/module-zlib.html comes with a CRC function. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Concurrency, I guess

Using candygram you can send the sync thread a message telling it to reread the config file or you could send a message that changes the setting directly. Candygram is much better than the standard threading module which is designed after the Java threading library. Java recently added another thre

Re: how do "real" python programmers work?

I might be a little late to the party but my comments may still be valuable. I write Python code in emacs. Emacs has an great python-mode. The code I write can range from a GUI apps to server side code and emacs works just as well in all cases. Some of the features that make emacs a good Python ed