Hi,
Saw this on www.elj.com/elj-daily.cgi yesterday:
http://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html
and thought people here might be interested (Norvig's
considering rewriting examples in the textbook - Norvig & Russel, not
the Case Studies book - in a language other than Lisp and feels Python's
pretty similar, but not as fast).
Must say I felt the same coming in the other direction - liked Python
and felt Lisp was "a better version". But Python isn't really
implemented for speed as a functional language - no tail recursion
optimisation for example (at least for C based Python, haven't used
JPython). Maybe more surprising, why is he looking at changing the
examples (and why not Scheme if he has to be trendy) - seems to be
driven my pro-Java "market forces"?
Andrew
PS Thought this was interesting, not trying to imply the D word - OK?
:-)
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