Python's Lisp heritage

[Paul Foley]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:37:39 GMT, Brett g Porter wrote:

> "Paul Foley" <see at below> wrote in message
> news:m2wuv0xr1u.fsf at mycroft.actrix.gen.nz...
>> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 02:32:29 -0700, James J Besemer wrote:
>> 
>> > That being said, I guess I just don't get the strong reaction to this
> secondary
>> > point.  I'm new here but I get the impression that "lisp" is a naughty
> word,
>> > for some unfathomable reason
>> 
>> A lot of people think "Lisp" means "Scheme".
>> Scheme sucks, so they think "Lisp" sucks.
>> 
>> [Scheme isn't Lisp.  Scheme are Lisp are only distantly related, and
>> Scheme is about as closely related to Algol as to Lisp...]
[...]
> In what ways are Scheme and Lisp only distantly related?

Look up last month's "Why is Scheme not a Lisp?" thread on Google's
comp.lang.lisp archive.

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