[Python-Dev] 2.5 and beyond (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jul 4 06:56:41 CEST 2006


On 7/4/06, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:

One thing to remember is that Python is not Scheme/Lisp. It borrows some ideas from Scheme/Lisp,

I can say it stronger. Any resemblance between Python and Scheme or Lisp is purely a coincidence. Neither language is in Python's ancestry, at least not explicitly; I'd never used or tried to learn Scheme when I started Python (still haven't) and my Lisp experience was limited to copying Emacs startup code from friends (still is).

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