From: Wilkes Joiner <boognish23@...>
Date: 2002-08-24T00:33:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Paul Graham essay on language popularity


--- Damon <adamon@mailandnews.com> wrote:
> In this article, Graham writes:
> 
>          The latest hot language, Python, is a watered-down Lisp
>          with infix syntax and no macros. A new Lisp would be a
>          natural step in this progression.
> 
> Can someone elaborate on this?  I've seen passing references to this
> assertion that Python and Lisp have somewhat related in design and
> principles elsewhere, but did not fully understand the reasons why. 
> Can someone please elaborate on them?

I think he is referring to the functional aspects of the language.  In
particualar, things like map, apply, zip, lambda's and friends.  Here is the
url to a functional programming in Python series =>
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-prog.html

The same author wrote a tutorial about Haskell =>
http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-bytitle/9A31A3C4A0CE683E86256AD400822942?OpenDocument

Cheers, 
Wilkes


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