merits of Lisp vs Python

[Ken Tilton]

philip.armitage at gmail.com wrote:
> On Dec 10, 12:28 am, a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
> 
> 
>>And that is why I will never write Lisp. I loathe Emacs.
> 
> 
> Me too. So if that's what's stopping you then you might be interested
> to hear that when I moved my free time programming from Python to Lisp
> it took only a weekend to learn enough of the language to code up a
> little Lisp editor. It's funny that I was able to do this given what
> I've now learned from this thread:
> 
> - Lisp is only used for research (but I'm not an academic)
> - Lisp is hard to learn (because of all those parenthesis)
> - There's no practical libraries available (so how did I do it so
> fast?)

Our working hypothesis is "mutant strain". We'll need some DNA.

ken

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