Why not allow empty code blocks?

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sat Jul 30 13:53:58 EDT 2016


On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 02:29 am, Rustom Mody wrote:

> MIT on practical reasons for python over scheme:
>
https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python
> Berkeley on fundamental reasons for the opposite choice:
> https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/proglang.html

Not a very useful discussion. His argument basically boils down to:

"Lisp came up with some good ideas that were copied by other languages.
Therefore Lisp is a good teaching language."



-- 
Steven
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.




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