By Guthur
> But python especially feels like the revenge of Scheme and Lisp in the sense of being the same sort of dynamic interpreted language and environment where code is data
He implied it by saying that code is data in Python. Being able to inspect code is not the equivalent.
It is also incorrect to refer to Scheme and Lisp as just dynamic interpreted languages; while they are dynamic and tend to have an interpreter they have also had compilers for quite some time if not from near the very beginning (1957 according to this http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/ibm/Blair-…).
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