For the love of dogs, Xah, try to keep up. Aquamacs is an Emacs
distribution that, which not there yet, is at least half way between
"classic" Emacs and a modern Mac UI. You sound ridiculous, like if
you were complaining about Windows not being really graphical, based
on experience with Windows-3
On Jun 11, 11:36 pm, Tim Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 11, 8:02 am, Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 11, 2:42 am, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > It is possible to write maintainable Perl.
>
> > Interesting (spoken in the tone of someone hearing ab
Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David C. Ullrich wrote:
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> > But duh, if that's how things are then we can't have transitive
> > dependencies working out right; surely we
> > want to be able to have B depend on A and then C
> > depend on B...
> > (And also if A and B are allowed to depen
Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No, you do not want on-change handlers propagating data to other
> slots, though that is a sound albeit primitive way of improving
> self-consistency of data in big apps. The productivity win with
> VisiCalc was that one simply writes rules that use other c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Alex Martelli wrote:
> > Steve R. Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >...
> > > > But the key in the whole thread is simply that indentation will not
> > > > scale. Nor will Python.
> > >
> > > This is a curious statement, given that Python is famous for scaling
Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As for:
>
> > At a syntax-sugar
> > level, for example, Lisp's choice to use parentheses as delimiter means
> > it's undesirable, even unfeasible, to use the single character '(' as an
> > ordinary identifier in a future release of the language.
>
> (def
[ I pruned the cross-posting down to a reasonable level ]
Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
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> > This is second-hand, as I don't actually follow Python closely, but
> > from what I've heard, they now have reasonable scoping ru
Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hopefully it can be a big issue and still not justify a flame war.
>
> Mileages will always vary, but one reason for lambda is precisely not
> to have to stop, go make a new function for this one very specific
> use, come back and use it as the one lambda
