Re: Lisp fragmentation (was Re: Python becoming less Lisp-like)

From: jayessay (nospam_at_foo.com)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: 18 Mar 2005 11:59:43 -0500

Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelmann@web.de> writes:

> Still, people are looking to Python as a standard. If something
> doesn't work in Jython as it does in Python, Python is treated as a
> standard definition.

I'm sure you're right about that - doesn't mean it makes any sense.
The logical implication here is that Python (the "de facto" one),
_can't_ have any bugs in it. How could it? By definition whatever it
does is the _correct standard behavior_. Frankly, to me, that makes
it much closer to _insane_ than _standard_.

/Jon 

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