merits of Lisp vs Python

[John Thingstad]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:39:44 +0100, Timofei Shatrov <grue at mail.ru> wrote:

> On 12 Dec 2006 18:03:49 -0800, "Paddy" <paddy3118 at netscape.net> tried to  
> confuse
> everyone with this message:
>
>> There are a lot of people that use Wikipedia. I think some of them
>> might want to learn to program.
>
> I think you misunderstood the goal of Wikipedia. It is not to teach  
> people
> programming.
>
>> I make it easier for them to find
>> Python by helping to maintain Python within Wikipedia.
>
> If someone wants to find Python, he types "Python" in the search bar and  
> works
> from there. He certainly wouldn't end up in "doctest" article.
>
>> Some people dislike Wikipedia which is fine. Some people dislike
>> Wikipedia and deliberately sabotage it, which is vandalism.
>
> Writing vanity articles about non-notable things is not much better.
>

You are being silly. Wikipedia has for instance the best coverage of math
of any encyclopedia (if you can call it that). This is how I came in touch
with it. If you want trivia you get trivia. If you want Phd. level math it
has that as well. It is as diverse as the people that use it.

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