Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderThis seems to be a good excuse to share this great story: > At ILC 2002 former Lisp giant now Python advocate Peter Norvig was for some reason allowed to give the keynote address like Martin Luther leading Easter Sunday mass at the Vatican and pitching Protestantism because in his talk Peter bravely repeated his claim that Python is a Lisp. > When he finished Peter took questions and to my surprise called first on the rumpled old guy who…
I have recently been learning python after primarily coding in Clojure and Ocaml the last 36 months. It has been a pretty frustrating experience, lots of the tools from functional languages are there, however Python as a language is extremely inconsistent. All these little quirks take up a significant chunk of cognitive overhead. Python also liberally add different syntax in places where it doesn’t seem to add much value (eg lambdas cannot destructure tuples, and don’t need to use return)…
I would imagine that the population of Lisp programmers who need a hand in learning Python is negligible compared to the other way around.
You may care to read the previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=255774 Comments there are disabled (as it's so old) so if you have something new to say, this is as good a place as any. When it was submitted again 4 months ago it got no additional comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3331969
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 263
- Total comments
- 175
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-07-24 | Python for Lisp Programmers | martian | 24 | 9 |
| 2011-02-02 | Python and Lisp | octopus | 7 | 0 |
| 2011-12-09 | Python for Lisp Programmers | ConceitedCode | 2 | 0 |
| 2012-05-04 | Python for Lisp Programmers | Anon84 | 2 | 1 |
| 2014-03-12 | Norvig: Python can be seen as a dialect of Lisp with "traditional" syntax | andrelaszlo | 1 | 0 |
| 2014-09-24 | Python for Lisp Programmers | malisper | 4 | 0 |
| 2016-10-29 | Python for Lisp Programmers | tosh | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-05-21 | Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)First breakout · Best thread | bshanks | 133 | 100 |
| 2019-12-27 | Python for Lisp Programmers – Peter Norvig | pcr910303 | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-02-22 | Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | optimalsolver | 78 | 65 |
| 2022-05-25 | Python for Lisp Programmers (2000) | rootforce | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-06-02 | Python for Lisp Programmers | behnamoh | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-10-10 | Peter Norvig: Python for Lisp Programmers (2000) | nanna | 1 | 0 |