[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> I find it amusing that most of the arguments that python-people are
> making in this thread are actually the arguments that C++ and Java make
> against Python. "Who needs dynamic typing?", "Who needs closures?",
> "The idea of using whitespace for syntax is beyond stup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Python has to rely more on using the right algorithm...
>
> This sound familiar: "Macros are dangerous!"
Yes. I changed my opinion on advocating Python having macros in one
of our long threads on the subject. Maintainance counts.
> "Compilers make you lazy."
This is n
what is a good alternate language to learn? i just want something to expand
my mind and hopefully reduce or delay any chance of alzheimer's. i would
especially like to hear from those of you who learned python _before_ these
languages.
haskell, erlang, ocaml, mozart/oz, rebel, etc.
i don't requir
Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Kaz Kylheku" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Lisp just seems hopelessly old-fashioned to me these days. A
> > > modernized version would be cool, but I think the more serious
> > > Lisp-like language designers have moved on to newer ideas.
> >
> > What are some of their name
Niels L Ellegaard wrote:
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Niels L
> > Ellegaard wrote:
> > > I have been using scipy for some time now, but in the beginning I made
> > > a few mistakes with copying by reference.
> > But "copying by reference" is the way Python works.
Leanne wrote:
> I have been using Python for only a few months part-time and have
> recently had my first encounter with retrieving user input from
> checkboxes. I have a problem with the way Python reads the input
> values from a set of checkboxes on a webpage.
>
> The values assigned to the che
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, having read a lot of this thread, I can see one of the
> reasons why the software profession might want to avoid
> lispies. With advocacy like this, who needs detractors?
And thus your plan for breaking into the software profession is ... to
develop Usenet advocac
"Alex Mizrahi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> PR> I don't see how to implement coroutines with CL macros. Maybe I'm
> PR> missing something.
>
> read the book.
Which book?
> but once you convert it to CPS, you just operate with closures. stack is
> just a lexical variables caught into closure
Russ wrote:
> If a debugger could tell you how many references exist to an object,
> that would be helpful.
import sys
sys.getrefcount(a)
But I doubt it would be very helpful.
Carl Banks
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I'd love to say it has been fun, but it has been more frustrating than
> enjoyable. I don't mind an honest disagreement between people who
Honest disagreement requires parties who are reasonably informed, and
who are willing not to form opinions about things that they have
So I've recently had a stroke of insanity, deciding that what the
open-source Quake III engine *really* needs is a good, healthy dose of
Python.
Here's the quick version: The Q3 engine is split into the engine
(responsible for rendering, sound, networking, input, and collision
detection) and t
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