map vs. list-comprehension

[George Sakkis]

"Tom Anderson" wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, George Sakkis wrote:
>
> > Keeping the language small is a worthwhile goal, but it should be traded
> > off with conciseness and readability; otherwise we could well be content
> > with s-expressions.
>
> There's quite a number of satisfied LISP programmers out there who *are*
> content with S-expressions ...
>
> tom

"We" referred mostly to python programmers, and although quite a few
may also be happy users of one or more lisp-ish dialect, I doubt they
think it beats python in the syntax department ;-)

George