Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Marco Antoniotti]

Andrew Dalke wrote:

> Thomas F. Burdick:
> 
>>With Lisp, you're not at the mercy of your vendor; if
>>you know damn well that some readable code A can be transformed into
>>equivalent, but efficient code B, you can cause it to happen!
> 
> 
> Not at the mercy of your vendor unless you want to use something
> which isn't in the standard, like unicode (esp "wide" unicode, >16bit),

Given that there are more than 1.84 implementations of Common Lisp, yes, 
you are at the mercy of the implementor to have access to a good UNICODE 
implementation.  (Now, whn is the last time I really really really 
needed to write error messages in Tamil script?  >:| )

> regular expressions (esp. regexps of unicode),

There are several completely portable regexps libraires.  For UNICODE 
see above.

> sockets,

There are at least two completely portable sockets libraries for CL.

> or ffi?

Last I checked UFFI did pretty much the right thing.

> 
> But that's just flaming -- ignore me.  ;)

I am a fireman :)

Cheers
--
Marco