MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com>: > Into how many versions did Lisp split in its first 23 years? :-)
I'm partial to Scheme, but I'll take any version. If you had tried Python 30 years ago, you'd give it up for any serious work because it would be so slow and consume so much memory. C++ virtual functions used to be avoided because of performance reasons. These are truly amazing times for computing: Java, C#, Python etc are now mainstream, and advanced programming concepts like closures are available to and expected from run-of-the-mill code pushers. Java programmers were afflicted by XML and didn't know of anything better. They are now being exposed to Clojure. Python programmers are starting to see glimpses of a better world with ast.literal_eval(). So we are getting there. Give it a few more decades. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
