merits of Lisp vs Python

[Rob Thorpe]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Pascal Costanza <pc at p-cos.net> writes:
<snip>
> Yes; I'd rather go by what the standard says than rely on
> implementation-dependent hacks.

But in that case what do you call Python?  The whole language has no
standard - is it an "implementation dependent hack"?

Standards are useful, but they are not the beginning and end of
programming.