Article:		Guido van Rossum Speaks
Subject:		Python and Lisp
Date:		2003-08-16 15:00:22
From:		anonymous2
How much longer will python be around? At some point people will notice it's greenspunning into a Lisp. Is python a big plot to secretly wean programmers towards Common Lisp?

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• Python and Lisp
  2003-08-21 11:11:22  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Python isn't greenspunning - greenspuning is adding a Lisp to an existing non-lisp product, and Python is too close to Lisp to be greenspunned.
  But python is more like Scheme than CL - lambdas live in the same namespace as other objects.

• Python and Lisp
  2003-08-17 16:58:40  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Yes, if you add an L and reverse the letters of the Python Secret Underground (PSU) acronym, you get LUSP. Scary, isn't it?
• Python and Lisp
  2003-08-18 01:37:49  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  If you remove "ython" and stick "LIS" in front of Python you'll get "LISP". Scary, isn't it. ;-)

• Python and Lisp
  2003-08-17 13:15:54  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Good god, no. What makes you think that Python is like Lisp?
  In any case, languages stay around for a long time. Lisp is an example of that.
  
• Python and Lisp
  2003-08-20 05:23:49  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Perhaps the obvious similarities? Python is so close to Dylan and Common Lisp it's not funny anymore.
  
  http://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html
  
  
• Python and Lisp
  2003-09-13 16:00:00  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Oh my. What are you people smoking! Look at Python code, look at Dylan code, and look at CL code.
  
  They are not close.
• Python and Lisp
  2003-09-17 09:21:28  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Its the features and architecture of the language that people are discussing, not the way you access these features.
• Python and Lisp
  2003-08-29 13:47:19  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  You are welcome to work with Perl.
  How is that for "funny" ?