On Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 6:49:30 AM UTC+5:30, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:05:52 +0100, BartC wrote: > > > (Actually *I* would quite like to know why languages don't have > > switchable syntax anyway to allow for people's personal preferences.) > > You want LISP, the programmable programming language.
You got it!! One of the deep paradoxes in 'getting' programming is that you cant do programming without some syntax; and yet syntax is irrelevant. I dont believe one can ever get that without some experience of Lisp -- Minsky's Turing award lecture is an elaboration of this: http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/TuringLecture/TuringLecture.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
