Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Bengt Richter]

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 16:41:44 -0400, Joe Marshall <jrm at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

>David Rush <drush at aol.net> writes:
>
>> You know I think that this thread has so far set a comp.lang.* record
>> for civilitiy in the face of a massively cross-posted language
>> comparison thread. I was even wondering if it was going to die a quiet
>> death, too.
>>
>> Ah well, We all knew it was too good to last. Have at it, lads!
>>
>> Common Lisp is an ugly language that is impossible to understand with
>> crufty semantics
>>
>> Scheme is only used by ivory-tower academics and is irerelevant to
>> real world programming
>>
>> Python is a religion that worships at the feet of Guido vanRossum
>> combining the syntactic flaws of lisp with a bad case of feeping
>> creaturisms taken from languages more civilized than itself
>>
>> There. Is everyone pissed off now?
>
>No, that seems about right.
LOL ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter