What does Python fix?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Donn Cave wrote:
> | Some of us persist in thinking of Python as a Lisp dialect, and like it
> | for that very reason.
>
> Whoops, now you've carelessly doomed Python to eternal obscurity.

not necessarily.  true Lisp heads see *everything* as more
or less broken Lisp dialects.

(the paul graham article mentioned at the top of this thread
originally claimed that the problem Python set out to solve is
that "Lisp syntax is scary and CL and Scheme have no libraries.")

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