merits of Lisp vs Python

[Kay Schluehr]

I V schrieb:

> One of the things I've always found off-putting about lisp as that all the
> syntax looks the same. In Algol-derived languages, each syntactic
> construct has a fairly distinctive appearance, so when, for instance, I
> encounter a for loop, I can quickly recognize that that's what it is, and
> bracket out the "scaffolding" and pick out the details that interest me.

I guess towards the intentional programming guys around Charles Simonyi
also all Algol languages look roughly the same. I remember how annoyed
I was as a math student that no PL supported my familiar notations
directly. I don't even try to speculate what chemists think about ASCII.