Python's Lisp heritage

[Grant Edwards]

In article <Xns91F67C40EB0E0lumberjack at 216.148.53.83>, Lumberjack wrote:
> aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
>> What's amazing about Lisp is that it's still in many ways on the cutting
>> edge of computer science.
> 
> Perhaps you should name these "many ways". Taken at face value, your 
> statement pretty much claims that computer science hasn't progressed in 40 
> some years. I can at least agree with that statement. Of course the 
> "science" in "computer science" is pure bovine excrement. If you can't or 
> wont measure it, it isn't science. "Computer religion" or "computer cults" 
> would better capture the reality.

It's part math, part crafstmanship.  I agree it isn't science.
As a general rule, no field with "science" in its name is.

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