Python vs. Lisp -- please explain

[Fredrik Lundh]

Alexander Schmolck wrote:

> You might want to argue about whether scriping language is a meaningful and
> useful concept, but it's really hard to see how you could talk about "scripting
> languages" without including python.

define "scripting language".

the only even remotely formal definition I've ever seen is "language with
designed to script an existing application, with limited support for handling
its own state".  Early Tcl and JavaScript are scripting languages, Python
is not.

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