Why should I switch to Python? - Infinity of Primes

Moshe Zadka moshez at math.huji.ac.il
Thu Apr 6 03:22:38 EDT 2000


On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Tim Peters wrote:

> That's approximately as irritating as it is in Scheme, were laziness also
> needs to be faked.

Tim, you said that just to annoy me, didn't you?
Scheme is much less painful: it has all kinds of macros and special forms,
like "force" and "promise" to make it as irritatingless as just writing
the infrastructure.

If Python has macros and lexical scoping, it would get much simpler.

can't-wait-for-sicp-to-get-here-ly y'rs, Z.
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