merits of Lisp vs Python

[André Thieme]

Paul Rubin schrieb:
> André Thieme <address.good.until.2006.dec.22 at justmail.de> writes:
>> Lisp has no parens. An editor could support a mode where code
>> is displayed in written in trees. There wouldn't be a single paren.
> 
> But there would be even more tokens, the lines going between the nodes
> in the trees, for example.  

These are painted by the editor.
I also don't count the number of pixels ouf of which a letter consists
as tokens. The nodes in the source tree can be one counting method
which a lot of people could accept.
For Python I also wouldn't count the number of spaces of indentation.


André
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