On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:01:46 -0500, Ken Tilton wrote: > You just > aren't used to thinking at a level where one is writing code to write code.
Firstly, I'm looking into lisp because my current python project is too full of boilerplate :-) and too slow. Coming from a C and assembler background, I'm *used* to meta-programming, and do it all the time. I even use python, Matlab and bash to write C, sometimes :-) However, in this particular instance, I'm inclined to wonder why meta-programming is the right answer, rather than just doing all of the interpolation and what-not at run-time, based on a big table of your algebra rules? It's for output to a human, isn't it? It's not as though it needs to be particularly fast? Maybe I'm just not digging the example sufficiently. That's likely: I've yet to write my first lisp program... Cheers, -- Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
