"Douglas Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > |>oug writes: | | >> Scheme has a powerful syntax extension mechanism | | > I did not and do not see this as relevant to the main points of my | > summary above.
The main point of my original post was that the quoted slam at Python was based on a misquote of Tim Peters and a mischaracterization of Python and that it was out-of-place in the quoted discussion of physics methods and that it added nothing to that discussion and should better have been omitted. *All of this has nothing to do with Scheme.* At the end, I added as a *side note* the irony that the purported author was the co-developer of Scheme, another 'minimalist algorithm language (Wikipedia's characterization) with more uniform syntax than Python and like Python, also with one preferred way to scan sequences (based on my memory of Scheme use in the original SICP, co-authored by the same purported quote author, and also confirmed by Wikipedia). I do not consider it a slam at Scheme to compare it with Python and see some similarities. Nor is it a slam at Scheme to suggest that it could just as well have been the subject of an unfair slam, if only the slammer were not its co-developer ;-) | [Steele quote deleted] | Do you now see how Scheme's syntax extension mechanism is relevant? No. This just partly explains why Scheme gets away with being minimalist. I explicitly referred to the core language as delivered and as used in SICP. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
