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Lisp, Python, and other comparisons


From: Christopher Dimech
Subject: Lisp, Python, and other comparisons
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 18:37:05 +0200

From:   divya
Subject:        Re: Emacs website, Lisp, and other
Date:   Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:37:24 +0000
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    Hardly. If anywhere, Lisp is stronger at universities.


Hello, I've been reading the last few exchanges and this strikes to me as 
intriguing. Which univerisities are you aware of, other than the places where 
Felleisen, Friedman et.al (Racket folks) have been active to have a serious 
Lisp-based approach? You no longer have that in MIT in any serious capacity 
either, except a few grad PL Theory classes, one doesn't really interact with 
Lisp in any considerable capacity. And this is not really news, even Sussman 
(co-author of SICP, taught at MIT) acknowledged the wave of changing to Python 
from Lisp[0].


I find this dishonest in the least, to not acknowledge the existing conditions 
as they are.


Regards,

Divya

[0]: 
https://cemerick.com/blog/2009/03/24/why-mit-now-uses-python-instead-of-scheme-for-its-undergraduate-cs-program.html







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