In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 07 January 2005 01:24 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > > Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Add in the fact that there are many, many Python programmers with > > > non-CS backgrounds, and the term 'lambda' sticks out like a sore thumb > > > from amongst Python's other English-based keywords. > > > > Richard Feynman told a story about being on a review committee for > > some grade-school science textbooks. One of these book said something > > about "counting numbers" and it took him a while to figure out that > > this was a new term for what he'd been used to calling "integers". > > > I think we should not try too hard to make everything "English" like. Its a > crappy language anyway (though its the only one I speak good). Matt Neuberg, > in _AppleScript: The Definitive Guide_, refers to "the English-likeness > monster". His example is that instead of > > x = 4 > > you have to say > > copy 4 to x The syntax was taken directly from HyperCard. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
