Making Python like LISP? (was: python object model)
Jeff P. Lankford (jpl@nrtc.northrop.com)
Wed, 31 Aug 1994 15:54:24 GMT
In article <9408290025.AA11221@dvts.com>, powers@dvts.com (Michael Powers) writes:
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|> If python is primarily an extension language then why would we want to make
|> python like LISP?
Don't worry Python will never by like Lisp -- Python's syntax is
already far to baroque for that. However, on aspect of Common
Lisp that is valuable is the rich set of operators that can be used
as an architectural model for developing native Python implementations;
see my typep.py module as an example.
Another interesting observation, based on the newsgroup traffic
(for example, the orignial announcement of a python object model)
is most programmer's interested in Python seem to spend more effort
coding C extensions to Python than coding Python. Real Python
programmer's, other the other hand, hate C and only code in Python.
And all our Python methods are hack implementations of Common Lisp
primitives.
:) jpl