Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou tzot at sil-tec.gr
Sat Oct 11 05:32:14 EDT 2003


On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:15:35 -0400, rumours say that Joe Marshall
<jrm at ccs.neu.edu> might have written:

>>> I would think Lisp is more like cricket:  wickets bracket both ends, no
>>> one can actually understand the rules, but at least the players wear
>>> white.
>>
>> Oh, come on!  Anyone can understand cricket!  There are two teams.
>> The team that's in sits out, except for two batsmen, and the other
>> team come out and try to get the men that are in out.  When a man goes
>> out, he goes in and another man comes out.  When the team that's in
>> are all out, except for the one who's not out, the other team goes in,
>> until they're all out, too; and then a second innings is played.
>> That's more or less all there is to it!
>
>In other words, the man that's in may be out or in.  If he's in, he
>can go back out, but if he's out, then he can't go back in.  Once
>everyone is out, everyone goes out, then once the in team is out
>again, the out team goes in again and everyone in can go out again.

This amount of input/output should be a responsibility of the operating
system.
-- 
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