merits of Lisp vs Python

Espen Vestre espen at vestre.net
Tue Dec 12 06:54:34 EST 2006


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

> I think the Lispies see "more dynamism" as a good thing 

Sure...

> I mean "dynamic" in a less good way-- there is a huge amount of
> state scattered all through a running Python program, that the
> application can modify at random and whose contents the working of
> really fundamental operations like method invocation.

That's what I call /kludgy/, not /dynamic/ ;-)

> How about if I say Python and Lisp are both dynamic, but Lisp does a
> better job of keeping its dynamism's potentially chaotic effects
> contained.  Does that help?

Yes, that's fine with me!
-- 
  (espen)



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