Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

[Mark Janssen]

>    Prior to that [the '70s] you have punch cards where there's no meaningful
> definition of "parsing" because there are no tokens.
>
> I have no idea what you mean by this. [...]
> You seem drawn to sweeping statements about the current state and history of
> computer science, but then make claims like this about punched cards that
> just make no sense.

It's like this.  No matter how you cut it, you're going to get back to
the computers where you load instructions with switches.  At that
point, I'll be very much looking in anticipation to your binary-digit
lexer.

-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington