python, perl, lisp, tcl / got a decision to make, can you give me a view point please ? and a joke for python users :)

[Alex Martelli]

"Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch at home.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.985296601.15357.python-list at python.org...
    [snip]
> Lisp is fun, but once you get past the program-is-data stuff it's not
really
> mind-expanding either.  Maybe that's just 'cause I only ever used
AutoLISP,
> could be there's some consciousness-building stuff somewhere in the more
> exotic variants...

Actually, any plain old Scheme *plus the book "Structure and Interpretation
of Computer Programs"* is a great mind-expander, IMHO (SICP is _the_
reason to learn Scheme!-).


Alex