Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Mon May 14 12:45:11 EDT 2001


In article <i3vqftgva0mkgepjj87qp8ps44cv92nq5c at 4ax.com>, Courageous wrote:
>
>>> Even simple things like iterating over a sequence of objects is done
>>> in a completely different way: in Lisp you do something to the first
>>> item then recurse.  In Python, you use "for x in list".
>
>thinks-whoever-wrote-that-comment-doesn't-know-much-about-lisp ly-yrs C

True.  Most of my exposure has been to Scheme rather than Lisp
and I incorrectly extrapolated.

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