If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:33:39 -0700, fft1976 wrote:

> On Jul 19, 9:55 am, Frank Buss <f... at frank-buss.de> wrote:
> 
>> E.g. the number system: In many Lisp
>> implementations (/ 2 3) results in the fractional object 2/3. In Python
>> 2.6 "2 / 3" results in "0". Looks like with Python 3.1 they have fixed
>> it, now it returns "0.6666666666", which will result in lots of fun for
>> porting applications written for Python <= 2.6.
> 
> How do you explain that something as inferior as Python beat Lisp in the
> market place despite starting 40 years later.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html


Besides, one can legitimately disagree that 2/3 => 0 is the wrong thing 
to do. It's the right thing to do if you're doing integer maths.


-- 
Steven