Lisp to Python translation criticism?

[Fernando Pereira]

On 8/16/02 8:59 PM, in article
Vdh79.156660$Ag2.8265210 at news2.calgary.shaw.ca, "John E. Barham"
<jbarham at jbarham.com> wrote:
> I'd like to write a Python spam filtering system using Graham's techniques.
"Graham's techniques" is a bit generous. Naïve Bayes has been around for
ages. See <http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn> for a
comprehensive introduction and relation to other statistical learning
techniques, <http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/397172.html> for history and
analysis of the application to document categorization.

-- F