Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?

[Courageous]

>  1. Python doesn't have tail-recursion (AFAIK).

Too many people have taken a lisp class and think that
recursion matters all that much to lisp programmers. Not so.

>  2. In Python the representations of program and data are
>     completely different. 

It was never about representation.

>  3. Python's "lambda" is crippled.

Too bad, too.

>  4. Lisp's object model was slapped on as an afterthought.  

It's *still* macro based.


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