[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Kay Schluehr wrote: >> Please, since this is a Python+Lisp cross-thread and you seem to have >> background info: can you explain why Lisp hackers have turned >> themselves into Python newbies for Reddit impl. and finally complain >> about the language switch? What was cause for their decision to use >> Python in the first place? > > Basically, it was the same complaint everyone else has about common > lisp. It's an awesome language, but there are no reliable standard > crossplatform (and free) libraries for threading and sockets. They > were using FreeBSD as a server, and (trying to) use powerbooks as a dev > platform, and that seriously restricted viable CL implemenations. > > http://redditblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/night-of-living-python.html > http://redditblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html
Compare this to that report: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/33fec2394f38546b Pascal -- 3rd European Lisp Workshop July 3 - Nantes, France - co-located with ECOOP 2006 http://lisp-ecoop06.bknr.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
