Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Jacek Generowicz]

Tim Hochberg <tim.hochberg at ieee.org> writes:

> Edi Weitz wrote:
> > 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... :)
> 
> Nope, with python in 2010 -- at that point, Python will be about as
> old as Lisp was in '81.

Excellent analogy ... if I want to write programs to solve difficult
problems, I can either use Common Lisp today ... or I can wait until
2032 at which point Python should have caught up.

:-)