Scheme (was: Re: language aesthetics)

laotseu bdesth at removethis.free.fr
Fri May 16 16:39:37 EDT 2003


Dirk Gerrits wrote:
> Sandy Norton wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
(snip)
>>
>> My question is: what other languages 'fit' the common aesthetic (if it
>> exists) of a pythonista?
> 
> 
> Once I got past my parenthesis-phobia I found Scheme 
> (http://www.schemers.org/) to be quite elegant.
> 
> It's a small Lisp dialect

Our local (french) Lisp guru is that, despite historic common background 
and some superficial syntactic similitudes, Scheme and Common Lisp have 
really evolved following two splitting path...

just-for-the-pleasure-to-argue-ly-y'rs

laosteu







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