[kennytilton]

I gave this some thought. First, the silence was perfect and it was a privilege to witness that moment between you two. As for the thousand words, they were the hundred moves we do not see in a grandmaster draw after a half dozen moves from a well-understood opening and a handshake. John had by implication stood up for homoiconicity as essential. You conceded Python lacked the quality, leaving intact your equivalence argument built in part on other Python features and in part on missing things not mattering. Nothing more was needed.

But that is just my poor reconstruction of the moment. The silence was better.