New Python implementation

[Christian Gollwitzer]

I agree to all the rest of your post, but this:

Am 16.02.21 um 09:57 schrieb Tarjei Bærland:
> I am not sure I agree that a language like Scheme or Logo or Brainfuck, with
> their small number of building blocks, would be harder to learn.


is strange. I'm not sure, have you actually looked at Brainfuck? Maybe 
there is also confusion what means "learning" a programming language. 
For me, learning a language does not mean to remember the rules and 
keywords, but to be able to write useful programs. Indeed, Brainfuck 
with its 8 commands is easy to remember, but it comes at a very high 
price: you can't do anything useful with it with reasonable effort. It 
is unusable even for pure computer science stuff. It is easy to see that 
BF is Turing complete, so please write a BF program to compute the 
ackermann function. Should be easy, just three rules ;) I'd definitely 
choose Python to do it here.

In that sense, Scheme also appears to be the Brainfuck of functional 
programming to me. It is not much more than the pure untyped lambda 
calculus, and by definition this allows you to compute anything, just 
like Brainfuck is a Turing machine. Actually it is impressive that you 
can write actual useful code with such a minimalist language (infix 
math? Pure bloat!). OTOH it feels like "assembly" compared to more 
evolved functional languages like, e.g. Haskell.

               Christian