Python's Lisp heritage

[Erik Max Francis]

synthespian wrote:

>         You go now and post that opinion on comp.lang.lisp and you're
> going to
> get beaten up till you drop.
>         For one thing LISP is a huge language, with various
> programming
> paradigms, and Scheme insists on being small and functional - what the
> hell for, nobody at comp.lang.lisp seems to know.

That's Common Lisp.  "Lisp" is a word that can either mean Common Lisp,
or any other Lisp-like language, or the general family of similar
languages, which includes Scheme; Common Lisp is the name of the "huge
language with various programming paradigms"; "Lisp" is ambiguous.

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