If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

[Tim Daneliuk]

Carl Banks wrote:
> On Jul 19, 4:29 pm, Tim Daneliuk <tun... at tundraware.com> wrote:
>> Carl Banks wrote:
>>> On Jul 19, 10:33 am, fft1976 <fft1... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Jul 19, 9:55 am, Frank Buss <f... at frank-buss.de> wrote:
>>>>> E.g. the number system: In many Lisp
>>>>> implementations (/ 2 3) results in the fractional object 2/3. In Python 2.6
>>>>> "2 / 3" results in "0". Looks like with Python 3.1 they have fixed it, now
>>>>> it returns "0.6666666666", which will result in lots of fun for porting
>>>>> applications written for Python <= 2.6.
>>>> How do you explain that something as inferior as Python beat Lisp in
>>>> the market place despite starting 40 years later.
>>> There was no reason to crosspost this here--looking at the original
>>> thread on comp.lang.lisp it seems they were doing a surprisingly good
>>> job discussing the issue.
>>> I'm guessing it's because the fanboy Lispers like Ken Tifton were busy
>>> with a flamewar in another thread (LISP vs PROLOG vs HASKELL).
>>> Carl Banks
>> This is an incredibly important discussion
> 
> It might be an important question but a discussion on Usenet about it
> is utterly useless.
> 
> 
>> and is much weaker because
>> it does not also include Pascal, BASIC, Ada, Oberon and Forth.
> 
> In the same way that a movie is weaker because the director edited out
> the bad scenes.
> 
> 
>> In fact,
>> picking a computer language is the most important discussion in
>> Computer Science and eclipses even P=NP? in significance. I sure hope
>> we can keep this thread going for a few months.
> 
> Please feel free to extend this flame-war along for a few months on
> comp.lang.lisp.  Not here.
> 
> 
> Carl Banks

Uh Carl ... are you familiar with the concept of mocking humor?

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