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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by armitron on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:07AM (#17539554)
Python is nothing like Lisp, where did you come up with that?

Three things that are key in Lisp: Symbols, environments and lexical scope. Python has none of these.

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by kazinator on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:52AM (#17541719)
Most of the examples of Python program design that are held up as "Pythonic" can be described as Fortran with dynamic typing.
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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by lispm on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:37AM (#17539891)
Python reminds me more of an object-oriented BASIC. Mostly imperative control flow. Lots of assignments. Lots of state manipulation.
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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by kazinator on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:01AM (#17541802)
Perhaps the biggest computer science cluster-fuck in Python is that there is no syntactic distinction between instantiating/binding a variable and assigning to it.

Python 3 makes it worse by adding some declarative stupidies nonlocal and global:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_shadowing#Python

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