Re: English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

Hans Georg Schaathun writes: > On Unix, the directory is just a file, listing other files by name > and disk location. Then it is perfectly natural (although very > rarely smart) to delete a directory without any concequences to the > contents. Ironically, the only unix I know of where this m

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

Paul Rubin writes: > If you say foo.frob() in Python, that's supposed to look up 'frob' in > a dictionary hanging off of foo. You can modify the contents of this > dictionary any time you want. You can redefine CLOS methods at run time any time you like, so this does

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

Paul Rubin writes: > Can you redefine CLOS methods without calling CLOS functions that tell > the object system what to expect (so it can do things like update the > MRO cache)? I.e. can you redefine them by poking some random > dictionary? You can in Python. I don't

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

Paul Rubin writes: > Robert Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does this make Lisp "less dynamic" than Python? Espen would say it's not > > less dynamic, but rather that a similar level of dynamism is achieved in > > Common Lisp via well defined interfaces. The com

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

Paul Rubin writes: > I think the Lispies see "more dynamism" as a good thing Sure... > I mean "dynamic" in a less good way-- there is a huge amount of > state scattered all through a running Python program, that the > application can modify at random and whose content

Re: Which is the best implementation of LISP family of languages for real world programming ?

p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > What applets? Have you ever seen a java applet? Last time I saw one > it must have been fifteen years ago. I see one each time I log into my internet banking service. Unfortunately. -- (espen) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf