From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31087 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Python Emacs (was Re: The .. rule) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:42:00 -0400 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <00May19.104238edt.116445@gateway.intersys.com> References: <00May12.111709edt.115683@gateway.intersys.com> <200005121547.RAA12153@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <200005172027.WAA16517@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <00May17.163721edt.115620@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167536 12048 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:32:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:32:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B154D051E for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:38:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB20845; Fri, 19 May 2000 09:38:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 19 May 2000 09:37:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04238 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 09:37:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from intersys.com (gateway.intersys.com [198.133.74.253]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698ADD051E for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:37:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by gateway.intersys.com id <116445>; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:42:38 -0400 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: Jaap-Henk Hoepman's message of "18 May 2000 22:48:22 +0200" Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31087 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31087 * Jaap-Henk Hoepman on Thu, 18 May 2000 | Actually, C is a macro assembler which makes C++ ... an object oriented | macro assembler:-) Very good. Paste a star on your forehead. :) | My problem with LISP is that it is a functional programming language used | imperatively, which, at least to me, makes any reasonably complex lisp | function very hard to read... The idea is that you recursively break a task up into successively smaller tasks, then you write functions to implement these little tasks. Getting back to the natural language analogy, each of these simple, "microtask" functions is like a word. Words are joined to form phrases, which are joined to form sentences, which are joined to form paragraphs, etc. -- Rat \ Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ accelerate to dangerous speeds. PGP Key: at a key server near you! \