[OPINION] - does language really matter if they alldothe samething?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.789.1075096990.12720.python-list at python.org>,
Dietrich Epp  <dietrich at zdome.net> wrote:
>
>P.P.S. I thought of a paradigm that would be exceptionally painful to 
>implement in Python.  It's a function found in some flavors of Lisp 
>called 'arb'.  It returns its argument which causes the program to exit 
>successfully, otherwise causes the program to exit unsuccessfully.  
>Think about that.

Well, the problem seems underspecified to me.  I can think of a number
of easy ways to implement *something* like what you describe, but I
haven't any clue whether they match what you're thinking of.
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classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code -- 
not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death."  --GvR