merits of Lisp vs Python

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Mathias Panzenboeck a écrit :
> Rob Thorpe wrote:
> 
>>Mathias Panzenboeck wrote:
>>
>>>Mark Tarver wrote:
>>>
>>>>How do you compare Python to Lisp?  What specific advantages do you
>>>>think that one has over the other?
>>>>
>>>>Note I'm not a Python person and I have no axes to grind here.  This is
>>>>just a question for my general education.
>>>>
>>>>Mark
>>>>
>>>
>>>I do not know much about Lisp. What I know is:
>>>Python is a imperative, object oriented dynamic language with duck typing,
>>
>>Yes, but Python also supports the functional style to some extent.
>>
> 
> 
> I currently visit a course about functional programming at the university of technology vienna:
> python implements only a small subset of things needed to be called a functional language (list
> comprehension).

Python has functions as first-class objects (you can pass functions as 
arguments to functions, return functions from functions, and bind 
functions to identifiers), and that's the only thing you need to use a 
functional approach.