merits of Lisp vs Python

Jon Harrop jon at ffconsultancy.com
Sun Dec 10 03:16:35 EST 2006


Wolfram Fenske wrote:
> But seriously... All the interesting features that haven't originated from
> Lisp (e. g. OO from Smalltalk) could in turn easily be implemented in Lisp
> with a couple of macros.

I was under the impression that CLOS was non-trivial to write. There are
many other interesting features that haven't originated from Lisp (e.g.
pattern matching in SML, OCaml, Haskell, F#, Mathematica, ...) that cannot
be implemented easily in Lisp because they are intrinsically complicated.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
Objective CAML for Scientists
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