[Edu-sig] Python as Application

[Arthur]

Grégoire Dooms wrote:

>I found many things similar to Python stuff in there and I think both 
>languages could benefit from each other.
>Best,
>--
>Grégoire Dooms
>  
>
I actually have looked at it top-level fairly recently.

But the little time I have to explore new things is being spent 
exploring old things - Lisp.  Reading -slowly - Paul Graham's classic 

On Lisp

http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

Not very far into it but have been influenced already by the "bottom-up" 
approach which he talks about as Lisp's strength - the concept of 
building layers of a domain specific "programming language" appropriate 
to an application.  Wasn't really conscious of it, but that is I think 
how I got to the concept of the mutable complex number - if that's what 
I think my program needs (I am not convinced yet it does, but what the 
heck, let's look at it), build the mutable complex number.

Love this stuff.

Art