Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

Pascal Costanza costanza at web.de
Thu Oct 9 20:46:00 EDT 2003


Matthias wrote:

> Why the smiley?  Many hours of discussions could be spared if there
> were real, scientific, solid studies on the benefit of certain
> language features or languages in certain domains or for certain types
> of programmers.

This presumes that language features can be judged in isolation. I think 
it's rather more likely that good programming languages are holistic 
systems, in the sense that the whole language is more than the sum of 
its features.


Pascal





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