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Car and cdr are a shallow critique of Lisp, the equivalent of "omg, significant whitespace" critique of Python.
by praptak 7y ago
Car and cdr are a shallow critique of Lisp, the equivalent of "omg, significant whitespace" critique of Python.
- nineteen999 7y agoI was aiming for funny and accurate, not deep. Sad, for some, I guess that its heyday is long past, and that it will never ever rise to compete even with C/C++ commercially again, no matter how hard some people kick the dinosaur corpse.
- kazinator 7y agoSignificant whitespace is more of an issue than what two functions should be called. Significant whitespace means that we can't reliably use a traditional whitespace-insensitive diff to to compare changes in Python code that seriously change its meaning, such as change how many statements are in the scope of an if.