Erik Naggum on comp.lang.lisp used to distinguish programming languages (defined by a standard, with many mostly-interchangeable implementations) with programming tools (none of the previous). In this view, Common Lisp and C++ are languages, but Python and Java are just programming tools.
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Anonymous2007-09-02 1:51 ID:L3HsukYR
ONE WORD, FORCED INDENTATION OF THE CODE, THREAD OVER
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Anonymous2007-09-02 2:04 ID:ck5jPkgN
>>4
It looks like programming tools are the future then.
Multiple closed implementations like CL has is for retarded faggots. One open canonical "batteries included" distribution is where it's at.
Not that Python is great or anything. Good ideas, fuck ugly syntax, and a community that's even more pedantic than the Lisp weenies.
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Anonymous2007-09-02 3:16 ID:jup6R3HU
>>1
You're right. That's a horrible way to start. ``Programming language'' is a horrible name for this business. It may be considered engineering, or it may be art.
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idententation can make it easier, FORCED INDENTATION does not THREAD OVER
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Anonymous2007-09-03 17:53 ID:4QjhngMS
>>11
Forced indentation is the only way to get fucktards like you to write decent code. Why do I claim this? Because you're bothered by it. It means you wouldn't always indent properly. I'm glad if I have to read your Python, it'll be properly indented, because you were forced to do it right.
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Anonymous2007-09-03 18:26 ID:+itWaWBI
>>5
did no one realize that this was much more then one word?
>>13-14
I actually invented the forced indentation meme (look for the ``Bad things about Python'' thread from Feb-March)
I was originally trolling the thread, by posting things like ``One word, forced indenting'' and shit like that. Later on I posted the much more evolved form of the phrase: ``One word, the forced indentation of code. Thread over.''
And that's the origin of this meme
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Anonymous2007-09-03 18:58 ID:Bd/v9jnj
>>15
Actually, I did that -- and I wrote what you wrote. I see even that has become copypasta.
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