merits of Lisp vs Python

Jon Harrop jon at ffconsultancy.com
Sat Dec 9 05:08:01 EST 2006


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Anything any language can do is possible in any other language

Not true. Concurrency, for example.

> Lisp developers so often gloss over that: "Oh, 
> feature X is *easy*, I could write it in a couple of macros. Two or three.
> Maybe thirty. Or forty, max. And they would work the right way first time.
> No, I haven't actually done it myself. But I'm sure I could do it, easy."

True.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
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