merits of Lisp vs Python

[André Thieme]

hankhero schrieb:

> Some clever details, like using minus to index vectors from the right.
> (aref "hello" -1) gives an error on Lisp, but the character o on Python.

It would not be difficult to add this feature to Lisp.


> Another detail I like is that you can choose how to quote strings, in
> Python you can write three double-quotes to start a string that can
> include anything, quotes, doublequotes and newlines.
> You can use double-quote if you want to embed single-quotes "john's" or
> single-quote if you want to embed double-quotes '<id="2">'.

You could add a reader macro in Lisp that allows you to do the same.
At the moment I would say that one could pretty much add most Python
features to Lisp. Be it slicing, list comprehension, or, if one wants,
Pythons object system.

On the other hand can I see difficulties in adding macros to Python,
or inventing a new object system, or adding new keywords without
changing the sources of Python itself.


André
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