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• 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 22:30:14 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3DB74D3F.4070208@p...> from "Paul Prescod" at Oct 23, 2002 06:30:39 PM

Paul Prescod scripsit:

> > Python is essentially Scheme with indentation instead of parentheses.
> 
> I'm trying to decide whether that was tongue-in-cheek.

Only slightly.  Official Python has reified generators, which are only
a hair away from continuations; Stackless Python, a variant, has
full Scheme continuations.  ("Stackless" is something of a misnomer,
but it does allow arbitrary resumption of arbitrary frames.)

To my mind, the non-LIFO control structure puts Python and Scheme
(and Prolog) in a class by themselves.

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