[Python-Dev] 2.5 and beyond (original) (raw)
Gareth McCaughan gmccaughan at synaptics-uk.com
Tue Jul 11 13:09:51 CEST 2006
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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).
Python resembles Lisp like an octopus eye resembles a mammalian eye: they have lots in common because they're both pretty good solutions to similar problems. Deciding whether it's Python or Lisp that has the retina fitted back-to-front is left as an exercise for the reader.
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