Python's Lisp heritage

[Tim Peters]

[synthespian, to Andrew Dalke]
> <sarcasm> No kidding! You can modify your classes?! Gee, I wonder if you
> can do * that * in C++ </sarcasm>
> But can you modify them * in runtime * ?! Without halting your
> application and, say, recompiling? <smirk>
> Answer: NO
> Only in LISP can you do that.
> That's why NASA is so fond of using LISP on their probes.
> And what's this discussion Python X LISP? I thought Peter Norvig's
> article already had cleared that up (that Python is a LISP from people
> who never understood CONS).

[Andrew Dalke]
> I'm not sure what your point is here.

That's because it's Usenet.  In person, it's very easy to tell when someone
is mooning you.

> In more recent Pythons (1.5 and newer, I think) you can do
> ...

He doesn't care, you know.

a-creative-application-of-a-banana-would-be-more-appropriate-ly y'rs  - tim