No macros in Python

[Russell Wallace]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:43:01 +0100, Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com>
wrote:

>both. and garbage collection.  and we did all sort of dirty tricks with
>managing the property lists (this being in Stanford AI Lisp on a Dec-10),
>and even more radical klugery hell-bent on making sure that the correct
>things were in memory when we needed them.  We were absolutely starved
>for memory, and so didn't  want to waste any running LISP itself ....

Ah! Yes, I remember what being short of memory was like, and the sort
of horrendous kludges you ended up with trying to squeeze things in. I
can see that might have a negative effect on readability alright :)

>Go attend any scientific computing conference and you will collect war
>stories from people who shot themselves in the foot this way more
>recently than last 70s, early 80s.  There is a budding language designer
>inside most physicists and a great proportion of chemists as well.
>Even the biologists have found out about this joy these days and the
>world has not ended  yet ...

*grin*

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