Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Tim Hochberg]

Edi Weitz wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:41:07 -0700, David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Apparently I was mistaken, at least for modern lisps.  I haven't
>>programmed in lisp for a long time; the most recent lisp manual I
>>can find at hand is a 1981 Chinual, which still seems to be using
>>dynamic scoping and requires an explicit function call to create a
>>closure.
> 
> 
> Fair enough. But then we should compare this Lisp to the state of
> Python around 1981... :)

Nope, with python in 2010 -- at that point, Python will be about as old 
as Lisp was in '81.

-tim


> Edi.