From whence Lisp envy?

[Peter Hansen]

holger krekel wrote:
> 
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
> > In any language about programming language features I now regularly postfix
> > it "Of course, Lisp had this 30 years ago", to get some amused smiles. :)
> 
> wasn't jesus around his thirties when he was killed?  Maybe LISP is kind
> of a new testament that - because of all its wisdom and truth ( if
> understood wisely and truthfully) - already contains all the truth
> and wisdom one can ever expect from a computer language.

So let's hurry up already and string up LISP, so we can look
forward in two thousand years (give or take) for its second
coming...  I, for one, can be very patient.  Meanwhile, I'm
quite happy with Python. ;-)

-Peter