Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

Wed Oct 15 16:00:32 EDT 2003

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:41:07 -0700, David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu> wrote:

> Apparently I was mistaken, at least for modern lisps.  I haven't
> programmed in lisp for a long time; the most recent lisp manual I
> can find at hand is a 1981 Chinual, which still seems to be using
> dynamic scoping and requires an explicit function call to create a
> closure.

Fair enough. But then we should compare this Lisp to the state of
Python around 1981... :)

Edi.