On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 02:29 am, Rustom Mody wrote: > MIT on practical reasons for python over scheme: > https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python > Berkeley on fundamental reasons for the opposite choice: > https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/proglang.html
Not a very useful discussion. His argument basically boils down to: "Lisp came up with some good ideas that were copied by other languages. Therefore Lisp is a good teaching language." -- Steven “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
