merits of Lisp vs Python

[Paddy]

Robert Uhl wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> writes:
> >
> > Speaking as somebody who programmed in FORTH for a while, that doesn't
> > impress me much. Prefix/postfix notation is, generally speaking, more
> > of a pain in the rear end than it is worth, even if it saves you a
> > tiny bit of thought when pasting code.
>
> Of course, you use prefix notation all the time in Python:
>
>   for x in range(0,len(y)):
>     dosomething(x)

In Python, most containers are directly iterable so we are much more
likely to arrange our program to use:
for a in y:
  dosomethingwith(a)

-Paddy.