Python's Lisp heritage

[synthespian]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:34:55 -0300, Erik Max Francis wrote:

> 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.
> 

	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.
	
	Cheers
	H
	


 
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