[Tutor] languages

[Alan Gauld]

> There are certainly exceptions to this. I think Lisp
> programmres will find that they have to change their way
> of thinking quite a bit to use Python effectively, 

On the contrary Python is very close to lisp both in structure 
and even syntactically(without the patentheses of course). In 
fact there is an excellent article on the IBM web site 
showing lisp programmers how to convert to Python.

Compare:

(defun foo (x y) 
    ( * x y))

def foo(x,y):
   return x * y

Alan G.
A secret fan of lisp who never uses it for real :-)