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Moshe Zadka moshez at math.huji.ac.il
Sat Feb 26 01:09:27 EST 2000 
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, David Smith wrote:

> Lisp hangover, I suppose.  

As a recovering Scheme hacker, I completely understand what you mean.
Well, coding Scheme in Python is dangerous -- it's much better to write
Python in Python.

> Which is also the reason lambda is in Python,
> no?

Actually, Guido claims not to know Scheme or Lisp. It was added after much
clamoring, and is occasionally useful, but much less then in Scheme.

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