Python! Is! Truly! Amazing!

[Christopher Koppler]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:05:48 +0200, Ville Vainio wrote:

>>>>>> "jfj" == jfj  <jfj at freemail.gr> writes:
> 
>     jfj> There were functional and non-functional programming
>     jfj> languages (the first being *much* simpler to
>     jfj> implement). There is a *reason* people chose C over
>     jfj> lisp. It's not that we were all blind and didn't see the
>     jfj> amazingness of lisp. Procedural languages are simply better,
>     jfj> and I'm not replying to this flamewar.
> 
> You did already ;). Lisp is not a functional programming language, if
> that was the case it would be even less popular than it is now. Lisp
> had it's heyday, while pure FP languages didn't even have that much.
> 
> Hey, it's 2005, I don't think we've used up our yearly Lisp flamewar
> quota yet.

Lisp will strike back! Someday, it will be popular again! When all else is
dust, Lisp will rule the skies!

In the meantime, let's do Python.

-- 
Christopher

root at creation # python
Python inf (day 1) 
[PyPy inf (Pythonix inf)] on pynuxinf
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from Creation import lux
>>> lux.fiat()