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It's so good to hear this. I'm always afraid that Python is going to squeeze out Lisp. It's a total absurdity, but people seem happy to learn Python and that puts a huge pressure on keeping Lisp shops alive.



"It's a total absurdity, but people seem happy to learn Python and that puts a huge pressure on keeping Lisp shops alive."

I think that it's less about learning, because Python is way more similar to languages like Java or C++. Using Python, they have to learn less. Than they discover some cool new features in Python and are bought. Then they don't see any need to bother further with lisp.


Wikipedia on Blub: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_%28computer_program...

The interesting question here is what's getting people to try Python but not a Lisp. Perhaps Clojure will help answer that question.




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