Article:		Guido van Rossum Speaks
Subject:		Python and Lisp
Date:		2003-08-17 13:15:54
From:		anonymous2
Response to: Python and Lisp
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.

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• 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" ?