For the love of dogs, Xah, try to keep up. Aquamacs is an Emacs
distribution that, which not there yet, is at least half way between
classic Emacs and a modern Mac UI. You sound ridiculous, like if
you were complaining about Windows not being really graphical, based
on experience with
On Jun 11, 11:36 pm, Tim Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 11, 8:02 am, Twisted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 11, 2:42 am, Joachim Durchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is possible to write maintainable Perl.
Interesting (spoken in the tone of someone hearing about a purported
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David C. Ullrich wrote:
But duh, if that's how things are then we can't have transitive
dependencies working out right; surely we
want to be able to have B depend on A and then C
depend on B...
(And also if A and B are allowed to depend on each
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Alex Martelli wrote:
Steve R. Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
But the key in the whole thread is simply that indentation will not
scale. Nor will Python.
This is a curious statement, given that Python is famous for scaling well.
I think
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, you do not want on-change handlers propagating data to other
slots, though that is a sound albeit primitive way of improving
self-consistency of data in big apps. The productivity win with
VisiCalc was that one simply writes rules that use other cells,
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As for:
At a syntax-sugar
level, for example, Lisp's choice to use parentheses as delimiter means
it's undesirable, even unfeasible, to use the single character '(' as an
ordinary identifier in a future release of the language.
(defun |(|
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
g Hopefully it can be a big issue and still not justify a flame war.
Mileages will always vary, but one reason for lambda is precisely not
to have to stop, go make a new function for this one very specific
use, come back and use it as the one lambda
[ I pruned the cross-posting down to a reasonable level ]
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
This is second-hand, as I don't actually follow Python closely, but
from what I've heard, they now have reasonable scoping rules (or maybe
they're about to, I'm
