Andrew D. Fant wrote: > [snip] try crossing lisp > with APL for a mathematically pure language that nobody can ever read. > One problem is that APL allowed unbalanced parentheses (as in )SAVE), whereas LISP does not. And of course there is the right-to-left vs left-to-right issue...
I do miss the incredible succinctness of APL. One "line noise" character was worth (say) 10 lines of (say) Fortran. I'd like to see some APL-ness added to Python, as I struggle to write a comprehension equivalent to one APL character. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
