Terry Reedy wrote: > "jayessay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>1. Someone recently remarked that good Lisp macros are basically >> executable pseudo code. I think that is pretty much exactly right >> and is a pretty good "sound bite" distillation of what it is all >> about. > > Several years ago I remarked that Python reads like executable pseudocode. > I still think that that is pretty much right. > > Googling, I discovered that the creators of some thing I had never heard of > said the same thing about *their* language a couple of years ago. I wish > web pages, like newgroup posts, were dated so one could better trace the > history of such usages.
Trawling through http://web.archive.org might help. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
