[Python-Dev] 2.5 and beyond

[Gareth McCaughan]

> 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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g