merits of Lisp vs Python

[Mathias Panzenboeck]

Mark Tarver wrote:
> How do you compare Python to Lisp?  What specific advantages do you
> think that one has over the other?
> 
> Note I'm not a Python person and I have no axes to grind here.  This is
> just a question for my general education.
> 
> Mark
> 

I do not know much about Lisp. What I know is:
Python is a imperative, object oriented dynamic language with duck typing, List is a declarative,
functional dynamic language -> those two languages have different scopes.

For more Information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29