e7: a new Lisp dialect inspired by Python

[paul]

http://e7code.org/doc/progress-report.html

[jey]

I ran into the author of this a few months ago at a SuperHappyDevHouse party. He's a pre-IPO Googler and is now working on developing this Lisp dialect.

I'd like to propose the "Graham-Tiedemann Law": All Lisp hackers who get rich will go on to create their own Lisp dialect.

/dislodges tongue from cheek

[dpapathanasiou]

If you're in NYC next month (Aug. 14, to be exact), you might be interested in Perry Metzger's presentation:

"Otter, a new dialect of Lisp. Otter is strongly influenced by Scheme and Python, with some bits of inspiration from Common Lisp, Perl and other languages thrown in, as well as some strange ideas Perry came up up with on his own."

(see the LispNYC site for details on the meeting: http://lispnyc.org/home.clp)

[mattculbreth]

Cool. Interested in PG's take on it.

[paul]

Also see http://e7code.org/

[palish]

What's PG always say..? Something along the lines of, "If competition springs up around what you're doing, you're doing the right thing"?