Python vs. Lisp -- please explain

[Alexander Schmolck]

Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> writes:

> DH a écrit :
> (snip)
> > It is by design. Python is dynamically typed. It is essentially an
> > interpreted scripting language like javascript or ruby or perl,
> 
> 
> It's not a "scripting" language, and it's not interpreted.

Of course it is. What do you think happens to the bytecode? And if python
isn't a scripting language, then what on earth is? 

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.

'as