On 17 Aug, 21:37, Elizabeth D Rather <erat...@forth.com> wrote: > On 8/17/10 10:19 AM, Standish P wrote > > On Aug 17, 12:32 pm, John Passaniti<john.passan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> It is true that the other languages such as F/PS also have borrowed > >>> lists from lisp in the name of nested-dictionaries and mathematica > >>> calls them nested-tables as its fundamental data structure. > > >> No. > > > you are contradicting an earlier poster from forth who admitted the > > part on dicts. he's saying a forth dictionary isn't a lisp s-exp. Well it isn't. > Not at all. A Forth dictionary is a simple linked list, not the > complicated kind of nested structures you're referring to. You really > seem addicted to very complex structures. I thought he had the opposite problem! I thought it was trying to knock in all his programming nails with same stack-based hammer. > They really aren't necessary for general programming. whaever *that* is -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
