merits of Lisp vs Python

[Bill Atkins]

Bill Atkins <atkinw at rpi.edu> writes:

> worried about the future of Lisp libraries.  We already have some:
>
>  - CL-PPCRE, a pure-Lisp regular expression package that is faster than Perl's
>  - Hunchentoot, a complete web server and web development framework
>  - CAPI, a proprietary but excellent GUI library
>  - CommonSQL (and CLSQL, its open-source offspring)
>  - parenscript, an embeddable Lisp that compiles to Javascript, letting 
>    you use macros in your Javascript code
>  - assorted useful libraries, like MD5, base64, SDL, XML parsers, web
>    page fetchers, testing frameworks
>  - bindings to the common C libraries, like GD, Tk, Gtk+

Lest anyone interpret that list as exhaustive: http://www.cl-user.net/