merits of Lisp vs Python

[Ken Tilton]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:41:12 -0500, Ken Tilton wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I know that. It was more of a rhetorical question -- Lispers are either
>>>trying to emphasis the radical nature of what you can do with macros, or
>>>understate it and make them seem just like functions. 
>>
>>Yep, both. The first is rare. CLOS is one, my Cells (ported this summer 
>>to PyCells as part of SoC 2006) is another. The latter is the norm.
> 
> 
> If macros' advanced usage is rare,

Hunh? I have tons of them. Of coure at your level of discourse you will 
want to know if those are metric tons or...

ken

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