Python's Lisp heritage

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat Apr 20 13:49:02 EDT 2002


In article <a9rn4i$mm4$1 at newsreader1.netway.at>,
Siegfried Gonzi <siegfried.gonzi at kfunigraz.ac.at> wrote:
>
>Python shows very often its C heritage, whereas Common Lisp is devoid
>of that impression. From this point of view Lisp is much different from
>Python; Lisp really went its own way.

Um.  Lisp is older than C.  In fact, the only older language still in
common use is Fortran.  (COBOL came after Lisp.)

What's amazing about Lisp is that it's still in many ways on the cutting
edge of computer science.
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