Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-22 Thread ilitzroth
> A statically type language requires you to think about two models of > your program at the same time: the static type model and the dynamic > behavioral model. A static type system ensures that these two > _different_ (that's important!) perspectives are always in sync. I have trouble understa

Re: John Bokma harassment

2006-05-30 Thread ilitzroth
>Your first question should be: Is it alright that Xah harasses 5 >newsgroups? Or maybe work on your spelling, harass is with one r, but >maybe you didn't read the subject, which wouldn't amaze me, since you >sound like you should be spending time on MySpace OMG!. Dear John, Should I ask myself th

Re: John Bokma harassment

2006-05-29 Thread ilitzroth
>"There is so much noise we can't hear each other, but I will defend >to the death a chance to get heard for whatever you might have to say that's >intelligent (while not necessarily from your own mouth)". You write a much cooler quote! >Besides, it is not clear that Voltaire really said that. N

Re: John Bokma harassment

2006-05-24 Thread ilitzroth
I agree there are limits to you right to free speech, but I believe Xah Lee is not crossing any boundaries. If he starts taking over newspapers and TV stations be sure to notify me, I might revise my position. Immanuel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: John Bokma harassment

2006-05-24 Thread ilitzroth
Xah Lee schreef: > I'm sorry to trouble everyone. But as you might know, due to my > controversial writings and style, recently John Bokma lobbied people to > complaint to my web hosting provider. After exchanging a few emails, my > web hosting provider sent me a 30-day account cancellation notic