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pjmlptoday at 7:36 AM3 repliesview on HN

I am here for the JIT and improved profiling goodies, one day Python will finally be a proper Lisp replacement.

-- https://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html


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cassepipetoday at 1:49 PM

What's Python's story for repl driven development ?

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nurettintoday at 8:23 AM

I had a colleague who was hostile to any language other than common lisp. Except python, which I assume is just because this page exists. What if norvig woke up that day and decided to write about Ruby instead?

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BoingBoomTschaktoday at 11:30 AM

Without s-exprs nor macros? Without reader? With its stupid statement/expression divide?

...Right.