merits of Lisp vs Python

[Juan R.]

Raffael Cavallaro ha escrito:
> This lock-in to
> a particular paradigm, however powerful, is what makes any such
> language strictly less expressive than one with syntactic abstraction
> over a uniform syntax.

Right, but it would be also remarked that there is not reason to
ignoring the development and implementation of specific syntaxes,
paradigms, etc. optimized to specialized (sub)fields of discourse.

If all you need is basic arithmetics and 'static' data structures,
optimization á la Python Y = a + b * c gets sense in most of cases.

If you are developing symbolic software where data structures as highly
'dinamic' and where you would wait something more than sums, divisions,
sines and cosines, and some numeric differentials then the parens
automatically gets sense.

Using LISP-like syntax for everything would be so stupid as using
quantum mechanics for billiards.