Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl? Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:39:31 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 8 Message-ID: References: <17be420c4f90bfc7$63225$1585792$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <86sf0l9h6c.fsf@yaxley.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:39:31 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="badb6633f042ee08dd03f65d8f49603e"; logging-data="2555952"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ZxuaIGWec0x2NShhXCCKZ" User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DIgBaAioTNBAoM7sTtgstOhNP5E= Bytes: 1396 On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:45:13 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > The Cakewalk Application Language (CAL) was very > Lispy. Was it like Autolisp, in making you suffer the Lisp syntax without the cool stuff like AST-based macros and lexical binding? In short, the worst of both worlds?