aoeu512

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1. 1.▲
   by aoeu512 7y ago

   I wonder if Guido had looked at Common Lisp and built his Python from a simplified form of Common Lisp/Scheme with infix syntax but with multi-line-lambdas, optional return values, CLOS, and edit-and-continue, and fast compilers from t
2. 2.▲
   by aoeu512 7y ago

   But it was done poorly... Lisp-2, eq vs equal vs = vs equalp , multiple-value-bind, destructuring-bind, remove-if-not, etc... Python's PEP process seems to be a better idea...
3. 3.▲
   by aoeu512 7y ago

   Sounds like your talking about Idris, Elm(JavaScript), ReasonML([JavaScript] https://reasonml.github.io ), or F#(.NET)... Monads are for context-sensitive mini-languages (>>=) (=<<): they have a direction and sort-of
4. 4.▲
   by aoeu512 7y ago

   If you build your own you'll have to debug it. If you get it from off-the-shelf and its built well, it'll be readable and small.