merits of Lisp vs Python

[Carl Banks]

JShrager at gmail.com wrote:
> Carl Banks wrote:
> > JShrager at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Okay, since everyone ignored the FAQ, I guess I can too...
> > [snip]
> > > What Python has is stupid slogans
> > > ("It fits your brain." "Only one way to do things.") and an infinite
> > > community of flies that, for some inexplicable reason, believe these
> > > stupid slogns.
> >
> > IOW, you posted the FAQ so you could appear to have highest moral
> > ground, then you ignore your own advice and promptly head to the very
> > lowest ground with ad hominem insults.
>
> You're right, in part: My implicitly linking Python's pros or cons with
> its stupid marketing hype is, I think, an ad hominem argument.

Ahem.  Calling Python programmers "flies".

> But I
> don't see a moral issue here; the purpose of posting the FAQ was merely
> to try to stop the fight. It failed.

GMAB.  If you were really interested in not fighting you would have
shut up.


> Regardless, there was some content in my post which you have not
> addressed:
>
> To wit:
>
> 1. Lisp is the only industrial strength language with pure
> compositionality, and that this makes it suprior to Python. We don't
> have to debate this because it's being debated elsewhere in this
> thread.
>
> 2. Ruby, which is closer to Lisp than Python, is beginning to eat
> Python's lunch. We don't have to debate this either because George has
> kindly gave support to it through posting a survey that made this point
> quite nicely; Thanks, George! :-)
>
> BTW, for the record, I don't have anything particularly against Python
> aside from its stupid marketing hype and a bit of jealousy over those
> flies building libraries which I wish we had in Lisp. I've made the
> choice uncountable times between PERL, Python, and Tcl when I didn't
> have Lisp as an option, and I have always chosen Python in these cases,
> even though I can program in any of these. (Although I'm probably going
> to start using Ruby instead of Python in these cases, but I'm not
> really expert in it yet.)
>
> (Actually, in many cases I can get away with Emacs keyboard macros
> where others would program in PERL or Python, although not always.)

Whatever, fanboy.



Carl Banks