merits of Lisp vs Python

greg greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Dec 12 22:06:32 EST 2006


Espen Vestre wrote:

> Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:

> > there is a huge amount of
> > state scattered all through a running Python program, that the
> > application can modify at random
> 
> That's what I call /kludgy/, not /dynamic/ ;-)

I think "kludgy" is a bit unfair, since this is a
result of doing things in a very simple and uniform
way -- rather a Lispy concept, I would have thought. :-)

--
Greg



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