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Message: [QUOTE="Kenny Tilton, post: 1730457"] Can't speak for others, but it certainly would be a mistake to apply it to another HLL. OK, another Pythonista just told me GVR had greater ambitions. Just tellin ya what I hear. No, I got that, but I just wrote it kinda convoluted. And that self-selection thing is just silly, until people over here: [URL]http://alu.cliki.net/Kenny's%20RtLS%20Top-Ten[/URL] ....come back in a month and update their responses to say "Drat! That language is every bit as great as I thought it was, but that syntax is driving me nuts. I'm outtahere!" Won't happen, btw. Hell, Tolton loved Lisp even before he picked up some editing tips. You know, I just remembered a relevant experience I had, only with a very early release of Dylan during the search I conducted which led to Common Lisp, aka The Promised Land. I actually made a bug report to the Dylan team: "hey, when I hit tab the cursor jumps way the hell out here, just inside the IF. I mean, that's pretty fucking cool if you meant that to happen, but what's going on?" :) Sheesh, who hasn't been exposed to basic? From my generation, that is. :) But no matter, the point is anyone can handled parens if they try for more than an hour. lessee: symbols? no sexprs? no code as data as code? no sorry, charlie. Boy, you sure can read a lot into a casually chosen cliche. But can we clear up once and for all whether these genius scientists are or are not as good a programmer as you? I thought I heard Python being recommended as better for non-professional programmers. Mind you, to my horror my carefully trained goalie turned out not to scale at all into game play (my fault) so i am back to square one with two days to go, so maybe I am not following all this as well as I should. [/QUOTE]

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