On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:08:17PM +0800, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
> The confusing amount of parenthesis should not deter one from
> appreciating and loving this powerful class of applicative functional
> languages.


well definitely that's their use - I'm now writing Python code with Scheme
in mind... *but* sysadmin scripting makes use of side effects first and 
foremost.  well let me read the samag article, but can do you do this:

  directory = remove(directory, filename)

or even:

  directory.remove(filename)

instead of:

  unlink (filename)

where a 'directory' is abstracted into a data type. hmm.
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