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Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser

• To: sean.mcgrath@p... (Sean McGrath)
• Subject: Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:30:44 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20021023150210.02d7ec30@m...> from "Sean McGrath" at Oct 23, 2002 03:14:27 PM

Sean McGrath scripsit:

> As for the relationship between Python and Scheme, Python can be as
> imperative (it/then/else, while etc.) or as functional (map, lambda etc.) as
> you like. It has a foot in both camps.

Python, like Scheme, has continuations.  No other language in regular use
can make that statement.

	Algol 60 was a great improvement on most of its successors.
		--C.A. Hoare
-- 
Deshil Holles eamus.  Deshil Holles eamus.  Deshil Holles eamus.
Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening, and wombfruit. (3x)
Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa!  Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa!  Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa!
  -- Joyce, _Ulysses_, "Oxen of the Sun"       jcowan@r...

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