On Apr 1, 2009, at 10:59 AM, William Stein wrote:
> I've been thinking very hard about how to deal with this for > nearly a year now, and have come to the conclusion that we should make > a switch from using Python at the core of Sage to Lisp. The > transition won't be easy, but it will be well worth the effort, since > in the time frame I have in mind (30 years, say) I see Lisp really > taking off, and despite its faults, anyone who has used Lisp a lot > knows that Lisp is clearly a far better language than Python in > several critical ways. Beautiful. J -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds ----------- My wife 'n kids 'n dogs are gone, I can't get Jesus on the phone, But Ol' Milwaukee's Best is my best friend. ----------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
