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I found Python's indentation style more appealing after working with Clojure for a while. Python is a bit like lisp without the parentheses. In fact you can Clo

by cutler 8y ago

I found Python's indentation style more appealing after working with Clojure for a while. Python is a bit like lisp without the parentheses. In fact you can Clojurify Python with Hy (http://hylang.org http://hylang.org) which solves both the indentation problem and the crippled lambdas problem.

armitron 8y ago
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.
- lispm 8y ago
  Python reminds me more of an object-oriented BASIC. Mostly imperative control flow. Lots of assignments. Lots of state manipulation.
  - kazinator 8y ago
    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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_shadowing#Python
- kazinator 8y ago
  Most of the examples of Python program design that are held up as "Pythonic" can be described as Fortran with dynamic typing.