Paul Rubin wrote: > Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Oh, my. time to trot out my "hey, X is cool, let's use it for >>everything!" rant. > > > Somehow it's something other than a rant if X is Lisp?
Ah, your discriminator misfired. Keep your eye on the bouncing rant: I was not espousing any language, I was espousing matching the tool to the task. That segued into my Lisp ball of mud rant, but, hell, even C offers iteration along with recursion. That observation turns the rant back on all-x-all-the-time languages, including I would note Steele's constraint programming language, which at first used a constraint to do variable assignment. Speaking of Cells... :) ken -- Algebra: http://www.tilton-technology.com/LispNycAlgebra1.htm "Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd "I'll say I'm losing my grip, and it feels terrific." -- Smiling husband to scowling wife, New Yorker cartoon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
