On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 1:10 PM Meredith Montgomery <mmontgom...@levado.to> wrote:
> r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > > > |Python's obviously a great tool for all kinds of programming things, > > |and I would say if you're only gonna use one programming > > |language in your live, Python will probably the right one. > > Brian Kernighan > > > > I transcribed this from the recent video > > "Coffee with Brian Kernighan". > > Sounds reasonable. I have been learning Python bit by bit simply > because there seems to be no other way to talk to university people. > But somehow I am so in love with Lisp that it makes me sort of blind > because sometimes I feel more productive in Python simply because I'm > always using it. When I can write Lisp, I do it, but often I feel like > I'm a role-playing TCP Slow Start or something like that. > ISTR hearing that Python and Lisp are pretty similar semantically - not because Python copied it, but because similar thinking went into the design of each. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
