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That may be valuable, but there's value in this too.

I've had a play this morning, and am already most of the way towards having the readline sitting in twisted and the instance feeding a webserver. Which is to say - lisp notation with all the benefit of python's great libraries, and I understand the layers completely.

No kittens were killed.

I wasn't the one who said the trite thing about kittens - I think writing toy interpreters and compilers is a great way to figure out how languages work.

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