• To: paul@p... (Paul Prescod)
• Subject: Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:33:19 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jcowan@r... (John Cowan), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3DB74EAA.4050506@p...> from "Paul Prescod" at Oct 23, 2002 06:36:42 PM

Paul Prescod scripsit:

> Python does not have continuations. Generators but not continuations. 
> More like Icon than Scheme.

Python generators can be reified, unlike Icon ones.  That puts them just
a hair away from full continuations.  Stackless Python does have
full continuations.

> Schema does not have objects built-in. You 
> can emulate them but they aren't built in.

Only because the Scheme authors can't get unanimity on an object system.

> Python uses a fairly 
> traditional mix of prefix and postfix syntax. Scheme is strictly 
> parened-prefix.

Obviously the syntax is different; that was the point of my aphorism.

> Python has a rich standard for everything from XML to 
> CGI to regular expressions. Scheme has a numeric tower. Python does not. 

The numeric tower is a good point.  How hard would it be to add it to Python?

-- 
John Cowan
        jcowan@r...
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