Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Sander Vesik]

In comp.lang.scheme David Rush <drush at aol.net> wrote:
> On 03 Oct 2003 14:44:36 +0300, Toni Nikkanen <toni at tuug.fi> wrote:
>> It's be interesting to know where people got the idea of learning
>> Scheme/LISP from (apart from compulsory university courses)?
> 
> Emacs. I've noticed over the years that people don't really get Emacs
> religion until they've started hacking elisp. I know that the frustration
> of having almost-but-not-quite the behavior I wanted on top of having all
> that source code was a powerful incentive for me to learn Lisp. Of course
> my apreciation of Emacs only increased as I went...

I have at times almost gnawed off my hand to avoid going down that path.
I'd rather write cobol than elisp...

> 
> The thing that sealed it for me was re-programming SCWM's behavior so that
> I could use X w/no mouse &cet. That got me hooked on Scheme (I had been
> hacking SML at roughly the same time while looking for the foundations of
> OOP), which was really just about perfect semantically.
> 
> david rush

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	Sander

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