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Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

Joe Marshall jrm at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Oct 8 16:41:44 EDT 2003 
David Rush <drush at aol.net> writes:

> You know I think that this thread has so far set a comp.lang.* record
> for civilitiy in the face of a massively cross-posted language
> comparison thread. I was even wondering if it was going to die a quiet
> death, too.
>
> Ah well, We all knew it was too good to last. Have at it, lads!
>
> Common Lisp is an ugly language that is impossible to understand with
> crufty semantics
>
> Scheme is only used by ivory-tower academics and is irerelevant to
> real world programming
>
> Python is a religion that worships at the feet of Guido vanRossum
> combining the syntactic flaws of lisp with a bad case of feeping
> creaturisms taken from languages more civilized than itself
>
> There. Is everyone pissed off now?

No, that seems about right.
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