Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

Matthew Danish mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Oct 14 01:00:46 EDT 2003


On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:59:19PM -0400, David Mertz wrote:
> |Come on.  Haskell has a nice type system.  Python is an application of
> |Greespun's Tenth Rule of programming.
> Btw. This is more nonsense.  HOFs are not a special Lisp thing.  Haskell
> does them much better, for example... and so does Python.

Wow.  The language with the limited lambda form, whose Creator regrets
including in the language, is ... better ... at HOFs?

You must be smoking something really good.

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