"jayessay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1. Someone recently remarked that good Lisp macros are basically > executable pseudo code. I think that is pretty much exactly right > and is a pretty good "sound bite" distillation of what it is all > about.
Several years ago I remarked that Python reads like executable pseudocode. I still think that that is pretty much right. Googling, I discovered that the creators of some thing I had never heard of said the same thing about *their* language a couple of years ago. I wish web pages, like newgroup posts, were dated so one could better trace the history of such usages. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
