merits of Lisp vs Python

[Duane Rettig]

"Paddy" <paddy3118 at netscape.net> writes:

> 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've never programmed in Lisp but I have programmed in Cadence Skill a
> Lisp inspired language with infix notation as an option. I found Skill
> to be a very powerful language. At the time I new only AWK, C, Pascal,
> Forth,  Postcript, Assembler and Basic. Skill was superior and I came
> to love it.

Remember; Lisp is a program-language programming language.  Sometimes,
one programs in Lisp without really knowing it:

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