Python's Lisp heritage

[Erik Max Francis]

"James J. Besemer" wrote:

> Seriously, I agree, the underlying abstraction -- the semantics --
> does not require
> parentheses.  But that's not really the language, per se.  I'm of the
> school that a
> particular language, curly-L, consists of a tuple: ( Syntax x
> Semantics ).

That's a Cartesian product, not a tuple.  :-)

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