merits of Lisp vs Python

Juan R. juanrgonzaleza at canonicalscience.com
Tue Dec 12 03:55:43 EST 2006


greg ha escrito:

>  From another angle, think about what a hypothetical
> Python-to-Lisp translator would have to do. It couldn't
> just translate "a + b" into "(+ a b)". It would have
> to be something like "(*python-add* a b)" where
> *python-add* is some support function doing all the
> dynamic dispatching that the Python interpreter would
> have done.
>
> That's what I mean by Python being more dynamic than
> Lisp.

I see no dinamism on your example, just static overloading.




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