... so at least that's how it reads, what experts are thinking about. That's perverse: because you're too old, nothing more is done to save your life. Unless you have enough money, then you can buy your life. Otherwise just die. How such moronic proposals are supposed to motivate anyone to support the social system is something these idiots can surely explain to me now. Does anyone still know that science fiction film in which all people from a certain age somewhere in their 30s are killed (in the film it's called renewal)? Sometimes you get the feeling that such utopias will soon no longer be science fiction but documentary drama...
Note: But it becomes particularly perverse when a theologian and advisor to the German bishops' conference strikes the same note. At Zickenterror I found the original article.
I had exactly this problem in the Python Desktop Server as well. So I wrote PyDS.Context for it. There flet is defined and activated as a new builtin. Using flet you can create a dynamic context:
> > > try: > > > _flet.begin(variable="wert") > > > ... > > > finally: _flet.end()
Not the most elegant version, but at least usable. However, I would prefer it if Python had real fluid lets like in Scheme.
At PragDave there's the original article.
That's really cool. A Smalltalk-80 running under an emulator for a Xerox Alto written in Smalltalk (Visual Works 7). Wow. The Dolphin mentioned in the article is one of Xerox's D-machines. I have two compatible systems sitting around here. Unfortunately, I never received the Smalltalk diskettes with the microcode and the image, but so far I've only had the Lyric and the Koto Lisp. Lyric is a nice Common Lisp environment, but Koto is really great: a pure Interlisp-D environment (ok, it's also included in Lyric and in the later Medley Common Lisp, but in Koto it's all pure Interlisp-D!).
I found the Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants and the original article there.