merits of Lisp vs Python

Fuzzyman fuzzyman at gmail.com
Sat Dec 23 15:38:30 EST 2006


Lars Rune Nøstdal wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:07:09 -0800, 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
>
> Kill this frakkin thread; Lisp rules -- while Python is boring (but better
> than many other alternatives). E.O.F.
>

Perhaps only with the addendum that although 'Lisp roolz', no-one uses
for anything of relevance anymore and it is continuing it's geriatric
decline into obscurity. ;-)

Python is dull, except to the ever increasing group of programmers who
use it for practical purposes.

Hmm... a fitting. EOF.

Fuzzyman
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> Lars Rune Nøstdal
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