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"Interesting to note is that the computer language they use to teach it (scheme) has its roots in Lisp (which is over 40 years old) and will probably never chan
by johnthedebs 17y ago
"Interesting to note is that the computer language they use to teach it (scheme) has its roots in Lisp (which is over 40 years old) and will probably never change."
It should be noted that MIT switched the language they teach their undergrads this year to Python. It should also be noted that Python also has roots in Lisp.
- rbanffy 17y ago"It should also be noted that Python also has roots in Lisp." If that is so, I can hardly distinguish them anymore.
- wglb 17y agoCurious how Python has roots in lisp?
- jacobolus 17y agoYeah, it doesn’t really. Python was already at version 1.2 before, Guido says, “... in April 1995. CNRI’s director, Bob Kahn, was the first to point out to me how much Python has in common with Lisp, despite being completely different at a superficial (syntactic) level.”