Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?

[Grant Edwards]

On Sat, 12 May 2001 16:35:51 GMT, Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote:
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>>  1. Python doesn't have tail-recursion (AFAIK).
>
>Too many people have taken a lisp class and think that
>recursion matters all that much to lisp programmers. Not so.

Really?  Almost all of the Scheme programs I've written use
tail-recursion.  Only of the Python programs I've written (that
I can think of) does any recursion at all -- and it was
translated directly from Scheme.

>>  2. In Python the representations of program and data are
>>     completely different. 
>
>It was never about representation.
>
>>  3. Python's "lambda" is crippled.
>
>Too bad, too.

Yup.

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