On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Roy Smith wrote: > O(2) behavior
Um ... > Lisp, of course, expanded my mind in ways that only Lisp can (the same > could be said for many things I tried back in those days). Surely you're not saying you experimented with ... APL? > I think it's probably just as important for a CS major to play with > those mind-altering languages as it is to worry about bytes and pointers > and memory locations. But you can't start everywhere, and if you've got > to start someplace, Python let's you concentrate on the real universal > fundamentals of data structures, algorithms, and control flow without > getting bogged down in details. Ah, so you've cleaned yourself up with Guido's Twelve-Step Plan. Amen to that, brother! tom -- Why do we do it? - Exactly! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
