What does Python fix?

[Andrew Kuchling]

aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:
> The "intolerant" clause I get, but not "too conservative"; Lisp is one
> of the oldest computer languages.

Yeah, but most programmers these days will have cut their teeth in a C
or C-derived environment, such as Unix or Windows, and therefore
expect a C-like syntax.  Lisp has seniority, but I doubt most people
come in contact with it, especially for real programs as opposed to
trivial factorial-computing examples.  (Getting my CS degree at
McGill, I used Scheme in only one course; everything else was Pascal
or C.  Plus a class project that was a Python extension...)

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