On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 7:24:19 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 5:50:24 PM UTC-4, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > On 03/06/2015 22:22, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 4:27:39 AM UTC+5:30, Dr. Bigcock wrote: > > >> We can make Python like LISP: > > >> > > >> 1. Make EVERYTHING the same kind of thing (call it "object"). > > >> 2. Let's make a lot of meta functions like super, instead of judicious > > >> use of interpreter impositions. > > >> 3. Forget *practicality*. All hail *purity*. > > >> > > >> Wait. Someone's time machine broke. > > >> > > >> Mark > > > > > > Hi Mark > > > > > > The way you keep bringing up Lisp, λ-calculus, etc completely without > > > relevance > > > to anything, I wonder if you had a bad experience with someone teaching > > > these > > > and thereabouts? > > > > > > <Dark Secret> > > > Everyone knows that the average student is below average. > > > More true for the average teacher > > > </Dark Secret> > > > > > > Yeah disasters (of all shapes and colors) strike and leave us scarred. > > > Isn't it more intelligent to pick up the pieces and move on than to keep > > > putting salt on the scars? > > > > > > PS If you de-expletivize your name, maybe more people will pay attention > > > to > > > what you want to say > > > > > > > Please stop replying to this brain dead pot smoking hippy. > > Please don't stoop to name-calling. It isn't necessary.
Pot-Kettle? Others have noted that Mark Lawrence's contributions here are in fringe-spam category: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2015-March/687314.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-October/679909.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
