Coffee

[Dan Stromberg]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 1:10 PM Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery at levado.to>
wrote:

> ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>
> > |Python's obviously a great tool for all kinds of programming things,
> > |and I would say if you're only gonna use one programming
> > |language in your live, Python will probably the right one.
> > Brian Kernighan
> >
> >   I transcribed this from the recent video
> >   "Coffee with Brian Kernighan".
>
> Sounds reasonable.  I have been learning Python bit by bit simply
> because there seems to be no other way to talk to university people.
> But somehow I am so in love with Lisp that it makes me sort of blind
> because sometimes I feel more productive in Python simply because I'm
> always using it.  When I can write Lisp, I do it, but often I feel like
> I'm a role-playing TCP Slow Start or something like that.
>

ISTR hearing that Python and Lisp are pretty similar semantically - not
because Python copied it, but because similar thinking went into the design
of each.