Re:Reflections of an “Old” Programmer
by dreamcompiler on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:01PM
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I'm still amazed that Python is popular. It is in every way a dumbed-down Common Lisp. Common Lisp is also compiled to native machine code, so it runs dramatically faster than Python. (The fact that Python isn't compiled has nothing to do with its dynamism and everything to do with how good the compiler writers of Common Lisp are.)
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Re:Reflections of an “Old” Programmer
by dragonwriter on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:06PM
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> I'm still amazed that Python is popular. It is in every way a dumbed-down Common Lisp.
The smaller and more focused feature set is probably one of the reasons its popular. There's also ergonomic reasons, which have a big effect on whether people who aren't initially fully committed tune out or blow up early on in their encounter with the language.
Re:Reflections of an “Old” Programmer
by dreamcompiler on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:20PM
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I guess you're right. I get annoyed hearing people say "all the parentheses drive me crazy" but I'm driven crazy by the indentation-bracketing of Python. I'm sure once I got used to it in a good editor it wouldn't be an issue.