Why learn Python ??

[Jacek Generowicz]

"Derek" <none at none.com> writes:

> I would also add that while Lisp has been a favorite in the AI
> community, you will find that most AI techniques generalize to most
> any programming language.  I spent a good deal of time in grad school
> and on my first job doing AI programming in C++.  The only time I used
> Lisp was in introductory classes, mostly to write elegant -- but
> toy -- programs.

Lest Derek give the impression that Lisp is in any way a "toy"
language, or that it somehow sacrifices practicality for elegance, I
feel honour bound to point out that it is actually the most powerful
and expressive programming language known to man, and excells in
solving problems which are often considered too hard to be solved in
other languages.

If you want to perform miracles, then learn Lisp. If you
merely want to write programs that rock, then learn Python.

:-)

If, however, masochism is more you bent, then I thoroughly recommend C++.

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  C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified,
  bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."