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On 2017-11-21 08:11 AM, Peter Billam wrote:
Greetings,

2017-11-20 22:36 GMT+02:00 Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
Why not just get rid of for loops?

One of my more reliable rules-of-thumb:
  Never trust a sentence with 'just' in it.

Eg:
  Why don't they just make some more ozone and pump it up there ?
Many other examples...  :-)

Peter Billam

http://www.pjb.com.au    ; pjb@pjb.com.au     (03) 6278 9410
"Follow the charge, not the particle."  --  Richard Feynman
 from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949


As someone who hasn't actually used any Lisp yet (whether you believe that is another matter), what's wrong with turning Lua into a new form of Lisp? It even starts with an L!

(somewhat relevant: Greenspun's tenth rule)

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