merits of Lisp vs Python

[Kay Schluehr]

George Sakkis schrieb:

> Well, for one thing we never held the first place anyway. Second, what
> appears to be the big boost for Ruby today maybe its death sentence
> tomorrow, ending up as a niche language for web apps, like PHP today.
> With a large crowd undoubtly, but I bet most Pythonistas would prefer
> lower popularity than ending up in a corner of the application
> spectrum.

Who really wants to write web apps? Web apps are just an excuse for
Pythonistas to write web frameworks.