merits of Lisp vs Python

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Mathias Panzenboeck a écrit :
> 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,

Python is a dynamic multi-paradigm language which is mostly OO but has 
support for procedural and functional programming

> List

s/s/p/

> is a declarative,
> functional dynamic language -> those two languages have different scopes.

Lisp is a multi-paradigm language which is mostly functional but has 
support for procedural and OO programming.

Both are highly dynamic. Neither are declarative.