Re: Python's DSLs (was: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda)

2006-05-10 Thread aaronwmail-usenet
Cameron Laird wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... . > >Of course, the choice of Python does mean that, when we really truly > >need a "domain specific little language", we have to implement it as a > >language in its own right,

Re: Python's DSLs

2006-05-09 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cameron Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >> On this one isolated matter, though, I'm confused, Alex: I sure >> think *I* have been writing DSLs as specializations of Python, >> and NOT as "a language in its own right

Re: Python's DSLs

2006-05-08 Thread Alex Martelli
Cameron Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > On this one isolated matter, though, I'm confused, Alex: I sure > think *I* have been writing DSLs as specializations of Python, > and NOT as "a language in its own right". Have I been fooling > myself, or are you making the point that Lisp-based