merits of Lisp vs Python

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

On 08 Dec 2006 19:56:42 -0800, Paul Rubin
<"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote:

(...)

> Lisp just seems hopelessly old-fashioned to me these days.  A
> modernized version would be cool, but I think the more serious
> Lisp-like language designers have moved on to newer ideas.

Paul, I find most of your comments well thought. But I don't follow
these. Could you elaborate?

a) "old-fashioned"? Is that supposed to be an argument? I guess
addition and multiplication are old-fashioned, and so is calculus;so?
I think "old-fashioned" should only carry a negative connotation in
the fashion world, not in programming.


b) "the more serious Lisp-like language designers have moved on to
newer ideas." Can you elaborate? I am not an expert but by looking at,
say, lambda the ultimate, I'd say this statement is just not true. And
which are these "newer ideas"; what programming languages are
incorporating them? (Scala, Mozart/Oz, Alice-ML, ...).


R.


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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
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Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme
Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
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