Let's make Python into LISP

[Rustom Mody]

On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 7:24:19 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 5:50:24 PM UTC-4, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> > On 03/06/2015 22:22, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 4:27:39 AM UTC+5:30, Dr. Bigcock wrote:
> > >> We can make Python like LISP:
> > >>
> > >> 1.  Make EVERYTHING the same kind of thing (call it "object").
> > >> 2.  Let's make a lot of meta functions like super, instead of judicious use of interpreter impositions.
> > >> 3. Forget *practicality*.  All hail *purity*.
> > >>
> > >> Wait.  Someone's time machine broke.
> > >>
> > >> Mark
> > >
> > > Hi Mark
> > >
> > > The way you keep bringing up Lisp, λ-calculus, etc completely without relevance
> > > to anything, I wonder if you had a bad experience with someone teaching these
> > > and thereabouts?
> > >
> > > <Dark Secret>
> > > Everyone knows that the average student is below average.
> > > More true for the average teacher
> > > </Dark Secret>
> > >
> > > Yeah disasters (of all shapes and colors) strike and leave us scarred.
> > > Isn't it more intelligent to pick up the pieces and move on than to keep
> > > putting salt on the scars?
> > >
> > > PS If you de-expletivize your name, maybe more people will pay attention to
> > > what you want to say
> > >
> > 
> > Please stop replying to this brain dead pot smoking hippy. 
> 
> Please don't stoop to name-calling.  It isn't necessary.

Pot-Kettle?

Others have noted that Mark Lawrence's contributions here are in fringe-spam category:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2015-March/687314.html
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-October/679909.html