In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So far? After a bit of pain getting started and finding decent docs >(while waiting for the books to arrive) I've found the language quite >easy to use. I haven't got into closures or macros yet - I need to get >more familiar with the basics first, but first impressions are >favorable. It seems that there is nothing conceptually in Python that I >can't reasonably easily do in Lisp, but the Python syntax is much more >straightforward for most of the basics I think (such as dictionaries, >sets, list comprehensions etc), and the function/naming conventions for >the core language is much clearer and more obvious than in Lisp.
Just remember: today is the car of the cdr of your life. Once upon a time, I was working at a company that was a commercialized MIT Lisp project rewritten in C. One day I was amused to discover that buried deep in the code were a pair of functions, car() and cdr()... -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
