What does Python fix?
Russ Cox
rsc at plan9.bell-labs.com
Thu Jan 17 01:16:29 EST 2002
> I didn't post that quote to start a flame war, but
> calling Python a watered-down Lisp goes a bit far.
> AFAIK, it wasn't even based on Lisp. Sure, it has
> quite a few Lispish features, esp. the dynamism.
> But Python is much more than just a Lisp rip-off.
Is there any connection with Smalltalk? Python feels very
much like "Smalltalk done better" to me.
Russ
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