merits of Lisp vs Python

[Ken Tilton]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> 
> Do you know the Paul Graham piece "Beating the Averages"?  It's at:
> 
>    http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
> 
> The error in it is that Lisp is really just another Blub.
> 
>   http://weblog.raganwald.com/2006/10/are-we-blub-programmers.html
> 

There we find: "But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the 
other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking 
up. What he sees are merely weird languages... Blub is good enough for 
him, because he thinks in Blub."

What is up the power continuum from Lisp?

ken

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