merits of Lisp vs Python

[Paul Rubin]

Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawomir.nowaczyk.847 at student.lu.se> writes:
> #> Lisp interpreters are several orders of magnitude faster than Python,
> #> and Lisp compilers are faster yet. Speed's not the most important
> #> thing, but it is _an_ important thing; all other things being equal,
> #> the faster solution is better.
> 
> Sure. But in 20-30 years, Python might get there.

I think compiled "Python" code may get as Lisp code sooner than that,
but I put "Python" in quotes because I think the language is going to
have to diverge somewhat from the current dialect to get that level of
performance.