merits of Lisp vs Python

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 19:31:38 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:

>> The day has not yet arrived that nobody ever needs to edit code in a
>> plain, vanilla text editor.
> 
> It's not impossible or terribly difficult to write Lisp that way, it's
> just unpleasant, once you've gotten used to doing it with editors that
> automatically indent and balance parens.

Er, an editor that does that is not a plain, vanilla text editor.


-- 
Steven.