On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 09:51:17AM -0500, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > Python started out as some guy on Usenet with a reusable extension > language (Tcl was another, and some RnRS implementations were another) > -- all 3 of them had interesting innovations and merits. (Tcl got > popular because of Tk GUIs, and then it has some moments in the sun > for earlier database-backed Web servers (as opposed to manually-edited > HTML) while a lot more readable than Perl, and was pushed commercially > by Philip Greenspun, before Sun hired Tcl creator Ousterhout, and Tcl > disappeared, in favor of Java and then LiveScript/JS.)
I seem to remember hearing that Scheme was one of the inspirations for Python. That and another language. -- hendrik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
