merits of Lisp vs Python

[JShrager at gmail.com]

Robert Uhl wrote:
> "JShrager at gmail.com" <JShrager at gmail.com> writes:
> > I have the code here (probably not the latest bcs I left the company
> > when it was acquired), let's do a little experiment, for what it's
> > worth: 89727 lines of Lisp code in 131 modules (lisp code files), 3306
> > "(defun" (by grep|wc), and 261 "(defmacro". [We did NOT use macros as
> > functions!] [Note that lines of code doesn't really matter in Lisp.]
>
> Wow--my emacs install has 1,152,598 lines of code in 1,570 files, 29,244
> defuns and 1,393 defmacros.  This really doesn't prove anything
> whatsoever (as I imagine that your stuff was a _lot_ more complex),
> except maybe how great the FSF is for giving away this sort of thing for
> free.

Let us note that it's not FSF that gives this stuff away for free -- or
if it is them proximally, it is not them ultimately -- ultimately it's
the engineers who did all that work that gave it away for free.