Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

Pascal Costanza costanza at web.de
Thu Oct 9 20:25:21 EDT 2003


Andrew Dalke wrote:

> Edi Weitz
> 
>>As far as "mix and match" of packages is concerned: Use Debian
>>(testing) or Gentoo. I've been told it's just a matter of some
>>invocations of 'apt-get install' or 'emerge' to get the CL packages
>>you want. At least it shouldn't be harder than, say, getting stuff
>>from CPAN. What? You don't use Debian or Gentoo? Hey, you said you
>>wanted "free" stuff - you get what you pay for.
> 
> 
> Python's free.  And I've paid for it in my efforts.
> 
> My primary machine is Mac OS X.  I always got frustrated getting
> fonts, sound, and movies working under the various Linux-based
> distributions, and I suspect there are the same problems with
> BSD-based distributions.

Well, then you already know that free doesn't always mean better. BTW, 
Xanalys have just released the free personal edition of LispWorks 4.3 
which runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. [1]


Pascal

[1] No, I don't work for them. ;)





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