Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Jock Cooper]

Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck at gmx.net> writes:

> "Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> writes:
> > The smartest people I know aren't programmers.  What does
> > that say?
> 
> I think this is vital point. CL's inaccessibility is painted as a feature of
> CL by many c.l.l denizens (keeps the unwashed masses out), 

I have never seen this in c.l.l. - most seem to feel the inaccessibility 
("ew the parens") are a necessary evil..

> but IMO the CL
> community stunts and starves itself intellectually big time because CL is (I
> strongly suspect) an *extremely* unattractive language for smart people
> (unless they happen to be computer geeks).

Well Hofstadter seems pretty smart to me, I don't think he's a computer geek, and
he's pretty fascinated by Lisp.  See G.E.B. and Metamagical Themas.