Re: Python is incredible!

2005-12-13 Thread Tom Anderson
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Cameron Laird wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Cameron Laird wrote: >> >>> While there is indeed much to love about Lisp, please be aware >>> that meaningful AI work has already been done in Python >> >

Re: Python is incredible!

2005-12-13 Thread Tom Anderson
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Xavier Morel wrote: > Luis M. Gonzalez wrote: > >> You are not the first lisper who fell inlove with Python... >> Check this out: >> http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html > > Paul Graham is not in love with Python though, he's still very much in love > with Lisp. > > He mer

Re: Python is incredible!

2005-12-13 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Cameron Laird wrote: > >> While there is indeed much to love about Lisp, please be aware >> that meaningful AI work has already been done in Python > >Wait - meaningful AI work has been done?

Re: Python is incredible!

2005-12-12 Thread Tom Anderson
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Tolga wrote: > I am using Common Lisp for a while and nowadays I've heard so much about > Python that finally I've decided to give it a try becuase You read reddit.com, and you want to know why they switched? > Python is not very far away from Lisp family. That's an intere

Re: Python is incredible!

2005-12-12 Thread Tom Anderson
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Cameron Laird wrote: > While there is indeed much to love about Lisp, please be aware > that meaningful AI work has already been done in Python Wait - meaningful AI work has been done? ;) tom -- limited to concepts that are meta, generic, abstract and philosophical -- IEE

Re: Python is incredible!

2005-12-12 Thread Xavier Morel
Luis M. Gonzalez wrote: > You are not the first lisper who fell inlove with Python... > Check this out: > http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html > Paul Graham is not in love with Python though, he's still very much in love with Lisp. He merely admits being unfaithful to Lisp from time to time (

Re: Python is incredible!

2005-12-12 Thread Tolga
I cannot remember where was it, but I saw a sentence in the Internet: "When programming, programmers spend more time for reading than writing". This is definitely true. We don't only read others' code but we also read our code again and again and again. Thus, a language which is easier to read can

Re: Python is incredible!

2005-12-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"Tolga" wrote: > Let's suppose that I actually want to leave Lisp totally but what about > AI sources? Most of them are based on Lisp. Oh yes, yes, I know, one > may study AI with any language, even with BASIC, but nearly all > important AI books start with a short Lisp intro. They say that "you d

Re: Python is incredible!

2005-12-12 Thread Tolga
Oh, Mr(s) Laird, you've indicated to a very important thing for me: Let's suppose that I actually want to leave Lisp totally but what about AI sources? Most of them are based on Lisp. Oh yes, yes, I know, one may study AI with any language, even with BASIC, but nearly all important AI books start

Re: Python is incredible!

2005-12-12 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tolga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >Actually I loved Lisp and still don't want to throw it away beacuse of >my interest of artificial intelligence, but using Python is not >programming, it IS

Re: Python is incredible!

2005-12-12 Thread Luis M. Gonzalez
You are not the first lisper who fell inlove with Python... Check this out: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python is incredible!

2005-12-12 Thread Sebastjan Trepca
Welcome to Python world :) On 12 Dec 2005 03:44:13 -0800, Tolga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am using Common Lisp for a while and nowadays I've heard so much > about Python that finally I've decided to give it a try becuase Python > is not very far away from Lisp family. > > I

Python is incredible!

2005-12-12 Thread Tolga
Hi everyone, I am using Common Lisp for a while and nowadays I've heard so much about Python that finally I've decided to give it a try becuase Python is not very far away from Lisp family. I cannot believe this! This snake is amazing, incredible and so beautiful! You, Pythonists, why didn't you