Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

Erann Gat my-first-name.my-last-name at jpl.nasa.gov
Fri Oct 10 12:18:05 EDT 2003


In article <Wpyhb.194741$hE5.6583756 at news1.tin.it>, aleax at aleax.it wrote:

> Björn Lindberg wrote:
>    ...
> >> Agreed.  I pointed out elsewhere that there has been no systematic
> >> study to show that Lisp code is indeed "so much shorter than the
> >> equivalent code in other languages" where "other languages" include
> >> Python, Perl, or Ruby.
> > 
> > It would be interesting to see such studies made.
> 
> Absolutely!

Lutz Prechelt has done a number (at least two that I know of) of such
studies.  I did one too: http://www.flownet.com/gat/lisp-java.pdf

E.




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