Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?

[Roman Suzi]

On 12 May 2001, Douglas Alan wrote:

>On Thursday I went to a panel of preeminent language designers.  The
>consenus is that we *are* all speaking Lisp right now, more or less,
>only the name has been changed to Python.  One misty-eyed and
>well-known Lisp hacker who now uses Python, proclaimed, "I feel like
>I'm programming in MacLisp again!".  Another said, "It's kind of too
>bad that they didn't call it 'PyLisp' or something."  Another piped in
>and said, "No, for marketing reasons it was good they changed the
>name."  Paul Graham says that the next major dialect of Lisp should be
>marketed as an improved version of Python.
>
>So, to anyone who is under the misconception that I've been clamoring
>for changes to Python, just wait until huge portions of the Lisp
>community start migrating to Python!

Ye... Probably we need Lython (like Jython) to facilitate this.
(pronounced like "light-on" ;-)


>|>oug
>

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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