Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Dave Benjamin]

In article <W5Zhb.7603$dn6.620 at newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>, Andrew Dalke wrote:
>
> Here's a page on Buridan's ass
> http://www.postmodernvillage.com/eastwest/issue5/ftf05.html
> ] The theory often referred to as "Buridan's ass" states that, when
> ] given the option of two equally wonderful piles of hay, the ass
> ] will starve to death because it cannot choose. This concept was
> ] first discussed in writing by Aristotle, but has been in existence
> ] long before it was documented in writing
> 
> Stretching the analogy, if there was no solution (no hay), the ass
> would keep on looking for food.

Maybe that's why, when confronted with two perfectly good languages, instead
of just picking one of them and writing some code, we instead must make
asses of ourself on long crossposted threads about the relative merits and
demerits of each other's hay.

hay-is-for-horses-ly y'rs - dave