Python's Lisp heritage

[Erik Max Francis]

Brett g Porter wrote:

> In what ways are Scheme and Lisp only distantly related?

Probably in that the original poster likes Lisp (I presume he means 
Common Lisp) and dislikes Scheme, and wants to distance them as much as 
possible.

"Lisp" is generally the term applied to the broad category of Lisp-like 
languages, of which Scheme is most definitely an example.  Scheme is 
indeed one of the closer relatives to Common Lisp.

Here's a Web page outlining some of the differences between Scheme and 
Common Lisp:

	http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~strandh/Teaching/MT

The differences can be significant from the low level view, but from the 
big picture they are very similar.
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